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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by drdeca on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:24PM (#26655143)
Personally, I have frequently wished that the downvote button on youtube _comments_ wasn’t fake. (Last I heard, it currently doesn’t even send a packet to any servers when you click it. It used to, until google+ iirc [edit: see correction/update provided by voussoir in the reply. Turns out it does now. Thanks for the update/correction.])

The inability to downvote substantially alters what is said/ranked highly, I think.

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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by voussoir on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:19PM (#26655582)
> Last I heard, it currently doesn’t even send a packet to any servers when you click it.

Just tested. It makes a post to

  /youtubei/v1/comment/perform_comment_action
with a parameter ?key and a payload containing "actions" both of which are long alphanumeric strings.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by drdeca on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:58PM (#26655822)
Oh! Thanks! I'm glad to hear that this has changed.
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