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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by epolanski on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:40PM (#29183002)
Your waste of time is google’s revenue and the reason they are doing it.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by bagacrap on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:50PM (#29183532)
eh, I would guess it's more like one PM wanted to get a promo by making a high profile change, and by claiming they were protecting some victim their case became politically unassailable
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by shadowgovt on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:55PM (#29184270)
Alternatively,

"Hey, Reddit did this thing. We're a little like Reddit; should we do the thing?"

"I dunno... AB test it."

AB test shows net effect is fewer dislikes, much like Reddit saw

"Cool; let's roll it out."

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