![]() I remember when Disqus stopped showing the dislikes many few years ago. Life may find a way to beat the system only means that the system needs to constantly change to give everybody a fair chance and allow for diversion to keep things interesting. And maybe they will or even are already doing that. I hope YT changes the absolute viewtime to viewtime percentage instead of an absolute number. If your channel has enough viewtime already you can choose to ignore and thankfully many channels do. As ranking is now based on viewtime which can be boosted simply by making longer videos (and hope that the majority keeps watching). Lot’s of videos are being stretched out these days, a 20+ min review video about a silly subject isn’t exceptional any more. The viewcounter only indicates how many times a 20+ minute video is started but doesn’t show the number of people who stopped watching after a few seconds. ![]() Meaning you need them both or you don’t need them at all. That’s why the dislike button was so valuable, as it provided context. A video with zero likes doesn’t have to be a bad video and a video with 10.000 likes doesn’t have to be good either. ![]() When they removed the dislike counter they also should have removed the like button too. So for that reason I say to everyone: install ad blocker for your browser and show giant middle finger to greedy corporations who think of content creators as a way to sell their junk. So instead of disabling dislike counters for some videos they disabled it for all videos. One of the reasons YT turned off dislike counters for everyone was because content from creators that sell, like movie studios and sell-outs, and their own YouTube Rewind trailer tanked harder than Titanic. But advertisers prefer PG-13, politically correct and kid-friendly content. They don’t care for content creators unless those creators are getting lots of views and lots of ads displayed. Fortunately for him finally they left him alone. Finally at one point YT turned it on for him, and then blocked his videos. YouTube nagged him many times to turn monetization on. He didn’t turn on monetization, because he knew his materials will be demonetized anyway or outright blocked for not being PG-13, Disney-friendly and politically correct. One of relatively popular youtubers in Poland had a curious problem with YouTube. Posted in News Tagged Dislike, Linus Tech Tips, youtube Post navigation Impressed by this bit of browser hacking? You can make an entire office suite in the browser as well! Linus Tech Tips, along with a bunch of other channels, have covered this, so check out their videos for more. The extension is open source, and the Chrome web store shows over a million users. is also working on a way to allow individual channels to share their stats with the project, to give more official numbers for their videos. If you install the extension, your video likes and dislikes are tracked, and the combined user data is used to extrapolate an estimated dislike count on any given video. First, it is pulling archived data about videos, taking advantage of the gap in time between the official announcement, and the removal of the dislike API.īut for new videos? That’s where things are harder. has put together the “Return YouTube Dislike” browser extension, which does a couple of things. Yes, a hacker, one of us, has figured out a workaround. “Life, uh, uh, finds a way,” to quote my favorite fictional mathematician. Their platform, so nothing you can do about it, right? Regardless, YouTube made the change, and people hate it. There may even be validity in the theory that corporate partners don’t like visible dislike numbers on their videos. There might be something to the idea that YouTube doesn’t like the notoriety of their Rewind videos leading the dislike count, with 2018 at nearly 20 million. It could be pointed out that dislikes still impact the recommendation algorithm the same way they always have, and that creators still see their dislike counts on their own dashboard. Citing “dislike attacks”, which are coordinated down-voting of particular videos, YouTube opted to hide the dislike counter on all videos. Very few companies have mastered the art of creating amazing technology and products, and then so effectively abandoning and mishandling them.
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