I hate the one-sided engagement button. It elevates trash.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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Return youtube dislike extension.
It still has for me.
Yes, but actually no.
2 things:
- Dislike button itself not "wired' to any visible/meaningful count and only seen by video author (which is funny, cause whole point of hiding dislike count was promoted as "beneficial to mental health of channel owners")
- If you using youtube dislikes — it replaces that button with it's own, counts presses on its own and uses own logic to show "approximate" amount of dislikes on video: it's not like it knows real count, what I'm trying to say
I seem to recall that people found that the like and dislike buttons equally improved the video’s visibility in the algorithm, causing many youtubers to genuinely suggest disliking the video as their call to action.
That's more of an issue with their algorithm. The thing I think most people here (myself included) miss is that they used to let you know the rating on videos before you clicked them so you could see whether a given video was decent or not and therefore whether or not you should bother with some clickbait BS or not
Fuck yourube lol, couldn't care less if the like button and the rest of the website disappeared too
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i remember spending two hours making sure the background of my youtibe profile theme tiled correctly.
Now you will like everything
I thnk google being ad company - they do it to increase number of videos advertizers willing to pay for.
advertisers avoid "negative" content
whichc ofc sucks for actual users
Ya that's a fair assumption.
Back in my day YouTube Shorts had a thumbs up button
Back in my day you could block channels that spammed you with bullshit or shit video clips overlayed super loud music.
It still does and you can see the usual like:dislike ratio as normal with SmartTube and other similar and far better, feature-rich applications for YT content.
Does it actually do anything though or is or placebo
Not sure what you mean. But for anyone that cares enough to pay attention to likes and dislikes, there it is.
I think the front end of YT, the dislike button exists purely for algorithmic purposes these days; both macro and micro curating.
But the foundation of public ratings is the ad populum fallacy.
As was the style at the time…