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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by emmelaich on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:19PM (#29181720)
You're right about the "attack" thing, but it would be no loss to remove the "Dislike" entirely.

I've seen random harmless videos (bit of classical music for instance) with many dislikes.

Same with Facebook btw. They should never have added anything over a mere "Like".

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by brushfoot on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:30PM (#29181845)
YouTube complicated things by having the dislike button double as a literal "I don't like this" and an "I don't want to be recommended videos like this in the future." When you dislike a video, it stamps it with a public seal of disapproval, even if you're just trying to avoid a recommended piece of music on YouTube Music.

It's a clunky, confusing UX that gave rise to the inevitable highly upvoted "Who in the world would dislike this?" threads on so many popular videos.

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