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Any chance we can make a browser extension that registers votes of and shows vote counts for installed users? Google would fight it. But we could always side-load if they do.
I'd also like to see this done web-wide.
I used to not understand why videos had dislikes even when they haven't premiered yet. But then one day, I realized that in order for YouTube to stop recommending me some channels, I had to press the dislike button. YouTube recommendation is so bad. Even when you aren't interested in something, they keep on showing it until you click on it. For example, I watched a few Squid Game videos a few weeks ago. Suddenly, bec…
(fyi) The ... button has an "I'm not interested in this option / channel" which you can to remove the video without having to click on it + downvote.
Odd that a certain political party got a large amount of downvotes on all their videos and YouTube removes the publics ability to see them soon after.
I'm guessing you're a conservative, and you don't want dislikes to go away because you think it's great that pro-democrat videos get downvoted, but you can't base real public opinion on YouTube dislikes. It's massively astroturfed
The dislike button on YouTube videos is one of the few remaining signals that what you are seeing is propaganda. It hadn't occurred to me that this would happen (although it seems obvious) and it is unexpectedly frightening to me. I suppose the fallback will be videos with comments enabled, where people can 'like' a comment who is saying something common sense and reasonable in response to the content.
Your use of the word "frightening" is an understatement in my opinion. Using the dislike button to add to the dislike count is a form of speech, and YouTube is silencing it. Given the growing disconnect between reality and content produced by the mainstream media, politicians, etc., YouTube should be increasing options for the masses to warn others about content, not decimating them.
Disagreeing with people vociferously: you get told off and soft-blocked from HN.
Rampant conspiracy theories? Totally hunky dory.
Seriously, look at the mayhem in these comment threads. This is Q-level madness.
A far better solution would be allowing more metrics into downvotes. How many of the downvotes come from a Twitter or Reddit post? What's the age of the dislikers? The solution is more transparency, not the suppression of information.
I hope there's new solutions, like browser extensions, to fill in the gap. Centralized and unilateral decisions like this only further prove online liberty must fundamentally empower individuals.
RIP to one of my favorite YouTube comment formats: > " of people "
Low quality garbage.
> We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks Wow. Well, the politically motivated truth behind this change is pretty darn obvious, right? If you're confused what I mean, check any US mainstream media video with an obvious political slant but pretending to be "objective news" and look at the like/dislike…
The change has been in the works since 2019 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/youtube-doesnt-like-... Was it "politically motivated" then? Or just when it confirms your own biases (now)?
Absolutely. 2019 was only 2 years ago. YT's politics are the same now as they were then.
Also, "dislike mobs" are hardly a thing at all. Almost always a large number of dislikes on content like "rewind" videos expresses widespread genuine disapproval of content. In the rewind example, users likely found this content cringy and felt pandered to.