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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#652Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…
I just canceled my premium subscription. I'm not taking this lightly, YT has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. But at this point it feels like the responsibile thing to do is to vote with my wallet. Not that a change in course is likely; their leadership has been hell bent on ruining the platform for years.
Honest question... why do you pay for Premium when you still get in-content ads?
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#653To be re-introduced once a Republican president is elected in 2024. /s
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#654The like to dislike ratio on their video is exactly why we need to see the counts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI
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#655RIP Neutral Response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ
A brilliant example of very-large-scale spontaneous cooperation: 12 years and 10.4M views, and the like/dislike ratio has been at equilibrium the whole time.
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#656we can complain all we want about this but it's going to change nothing -- we'll get our frustration out here and then comply with whatever they decide to do to further their agenda
Some have already cancelled their Premium subscriptions, others have discovered alternatives to Youtube such as Odysee. So complaining does lead to change, even if it isn't a change in Youtube's agenda.
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#657This is a damned shame. I use dislikes to gauge if a video is relevant to the topic at hand. For example, I like fixing stuff and use Youtube for unfamiliar items. Often videos with a high number of dislikes are Spam (usually a bot reading text from some website), Videos where the person handwaves through the steps, videos where the fix is improper, or videos where the creator spends more time monetizing than working…
For recommended videos I see only two paradigms - videos with >95% likes - mostly political videos that have obviously been brigaded imo this is a reasonable change
Really?
At least when you search for a video topic, you are likely to get a wide range in quality. Regularly surfaced content has a variable amount of dislikes, and almost always the dislike count is signal and not noise.
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#658I guess Brandon must be getting too many dislikes.
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#659Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just canceled my premium subscription. I'm not taking this lightly, YT has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. But at this point it feels like the responsibile thing to do is to vote with my wallet. Not that a change in course is likely; their leadership has been hell bent on ruining the platform for years.
I still see dislikes but will be cancelling my premium the second they go away.
With YouTube Vanced, there's no reason for premium
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#660I wonder if Likes / Views is a good proxy for dislikes?