Youtube removed dislike button

I remember when before covid started I thought they would remove the dislike button on youtube because every liberal mainstream media video had like 4x dislike to like ratio. They finally took down the feature so you cant see how much people think theyre full of it.

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  • Somenormie

    I can use the extensions to find out how many dislikes a video has.

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Youtube has a big right wing base it seems

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      • ArchDornan

        Not necessarily big, but active.

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  • hauntedbysandwiches

    This is pretty much everywhere now God forbid you show dislike for a stupid video. I think it's to push their views on us by psychologically messing with the public by them thinking if we don't know how many people dislike something it'll make it seem more appealing especially political videos.

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    • Tommythecaty

      This kind of social engineering has been around for a while now.

      It’s the reason that nobody should take interest in “likes”

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Yeah Biden is supposed to be the most popular president ever with the most ever votes in history but every video of him speaking has like 10,000% dislike ratio. They want you to think the woke bs is popular when jts not.

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    • GuvnorsOtherWoman

      Sandwiches, that is a brilliant observation and is probably nearer the truth than we know.

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  • SkullsNRoses

    I thought the issue was people mass-disliking corporate videos.

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    • LloydAsher

      So what? Corporations that advertised bad ideas deserve to be downvoted to oblivion.

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      • SkullsNRoses

        I agree, YouTube is a shell of its former self. I meant it was seen as an issue by YouTube.

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        • 1WeirdGuy

          I miss the good ol days of straight anarchy on youtube. You use to be able to find everything on there.

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      They said the issue was because people would downvote small channels and make their channels look bad. But the real reason was it was like a protest that showed peoples opinions on things. Like anything covid lockdown related would be downvoted into oblivion and all the comments protesting it.

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  • PurpleHoneycomb

    I don't think I've seen anyone other than corporations think this is a good choice. Even the original co-founder of the company has said he hates the decision.

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  • JellyBeanBandit

    Luckily there's a browser extension you can download called 'Return Youtube Dislike' which brings back the ability to view the number of dislikes.

    Of course that's not to say this is acceptable. I doubt they removed it because of left or right wing videos, but because of the corporations. YouTube are censoring people's opinions to appease the corporations. YouTube isn't a place for the everyday vlogger to voice their opinions anymore, it's a place for corporations to advertise their shitty products without fear of honest feedback.

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    • LloydAsher

      The more annoying part is finding bootlegged movies that I filtered based on the ratio.

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  • anonY123

    The dislike button was one of the most useful features of YouTube. Its removal and heavy censorship of comments is disturbing

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  • raisinbran

    Youtube is heavily curated and censored.

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  • Bastards.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    I saw one the other day of the new omnicorin strain (one of the mandatory videos that youtube forces in your feed no matter how many times you click on dont show again) it had like 400 likes and 5000 dislikes. Anything covid lockdown related gets like 10x the amount of dislikes. Anything liberal gets like triple the dislikes. Youtube definitely has a big right wing base compared to twitter.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    my favorite youtuber put out a video today about a new bulldozer he bought

    why the fuck would anyone waste time watchin stupid political shit when theres so much great content to see?

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    • SkullsNRoses

      Link?

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

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

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    • adobeslats

      Right, the only reason I’d click on them was to see how many thumbs down they got

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  • Boojum

    From how you phrase this comment, I take it that evil YouTube has left the Dislike count on display for right-wing fruitcake videos?

    If that's not the case, then your bias has led you to the wrong conclusion.

    And, for what it's worth, what I've observed on the left-of-centre channels I tend to watch is that the Likes always vastly outnumbered the Dislikes. Of course, the fact that we can't see that tally now means you can take a page out of your Dear Leader's book and baldly state total lies as definite facts.

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    • https://ibb.co/NYyWxS0

      look I was able to take a snapshot of the new dr fauci trailer on youtube before they banned the dislike button 😂

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      • lmfao

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    • ArchDornan

      What?

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  • mathewdavis133

    I still see the dislike button whenever i watch a youtube video, so I don't know if the feature is available in my country or not.

    (i'm from nz )

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Do you still see the dislike count?

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      • mathewdavis133

        i don't really look at that part of youtube. I thought they were removing the actual dislike button itself.

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  • Tinybird

    I like it. Now if someone has a problem with any of my videos I can see exactly who the fucker is, report and block them. Stupid little trolls will have to stop being cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the dislike button now.

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    • bigbudchonger

      How are they being trolls by just disliking your video?

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      • Tinybird

        because they would go on every single video and subscribed with multiple accounts to dislike my videos every time I uploaded with their multiple accounts. They are one of the reasons I stopped uploading regularly.

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        • 1WeirdGuy

          just turn off the vote feature

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    • SweetNLite

      You're gonna 'report' people that don't like your stupid YouTube videos? LOL Thanks for the laugh.

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      • Tinybird

        my videos are not stupid, unlike you

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      You have to know it wasnt about the small channels. You dont believe everything you see do you?

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    • SkullsNRoses

      Do you make videos about Gustav?

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      • Tinybird

        I have featured him in some videos. I even made an "utau" (singing voice synthesiser) with his voice so I can make him sing :)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXLh_2XlwA

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