Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Not brilliant at all.

This is yet another move to make YouTube friendly to the same powers that be everywhere. This is a tool for centralized control, not a platform for everyone.

The reason they're doing this is the whitehouse is a joke. It's harder to convince the proles they should continue to be as easily mollified as they are when the proles aren't aware of how angry everyone else is.

It's hard to convince the world that what the TV people are paid to say is correct when it's clear that the vast majority disagree.

Check out the downvotes and top comments on their announcement video. Frankly I'm surprised they didn't disable comments yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI

"Great to see YouTube finally protecting creators like Pepsi and Gillette"

"This is the most offensively dishonest thing you've posted even for your standard. Dislike counts were essential to spot scams, fake/bad tutorials, clickbaits and were especially important as a tool to fight back against horrible megacorporation announcements."

"To protect creators that suck, like politicians, big corporations that sponsor us, and astroturfed talentless on demand era hacks, we're preventing you from seeing how unpopular they are."

“We want everyone to have a voice, unless those voices are valid criticism or go against our agenda.”

"No one wants this other than the corporations who are getting shamed for putting out awful content that the public dislike. You are removing a key protection people have from scamming, dangerous or misleading content and are protecting no one. Stop hiding behind 'small creators mental health' like you think you're doing anything. We can all still see how many dislikes our video got. Our mental health is not protected in any fashion. The only thing you change is the public facing, and we know why you did this."

"When I was 12, my videos were dislike bombed. Not many liked them. Sure, it hurt, but I matured since then. I matured, because I was able to respond to the negative feedback my content was receiving. If not it, I would be falsely convinced of my perceived non-existant greatness. Dislikes are key to personal and content growth."

Dislikes should be shown for government-affiliated political videos, e.g. speeches of politicians.

If they are worried about dislike attacks why don't they blind the data with delayed effects?? Like update of a dislike appears days later but you can still see a ratio of likes vs dislikes for the last year or so...

I'm a big soccer fan, dislike button is the best metric to gauge a game summary