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I'm surprised they still support video dislike via API, but have removed it from the user interface... I understand they are likely worried about backwards com

I'm surprised they still support video dislike via API, but have removed it from the user interface... I understand they are likely worried about backwards compatibility with the abundance of client-devices, and not inadvertently breaking some app somewhere, but why not just make it a noop... Unrelated: My treadmill has the absolute worst YT client I've ever used.

freedomben 4y ago
My understanding was that they still want to hoover up that sweet sweet preferences data (of which dislike is a useful metric). It's just not going to be exposed externally.
tshaddox 4y ago
YouTube hasn’t removed the dislike button. They have removed the dislike count.
- cphoover 4y ago
  My mistake
Tenoke 4y ago
They do and you can install extensions to see the dislike count though sadly they slow down my experience every time Ive tried them (at least on Windows Chrome).
- etra0 4y ago
  You cannot longer see the true like/dislike ratio. They removed the dislike count even from the API since December 13th [0]. The extension does some guesswork to calculate that for you [1]. This library also doesn't give you the dislikes anymore (just tested it). [0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t... [1] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike#what-it-does https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike#what-it-do...
  - Tenoke 4y ago
    Ah I wasn't aware. For what is worth the gueswork does seem accurate enough to be useful on the videos I tested last time.