r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button entirely and users aren’t happy

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-testing-hiding-the-dislike-button-entirely-and-users-arent-happy-3420822/
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u/Zwars1231 10h ago

I haven't seen a dislike button on ios in probably months.

But on desktop too now? I already get way too much use out of the "don't recommend me this stuff, im not interested." button

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u/Physical-Builder-553 10h ago

That's the next thing to be removed.

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u/KptKrondog 7h ago

I haven't had a dislike button on YouTube for probably 6 months on the browser. It sucks because there's so much junk and there's no way to show that it's junk.

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u/Telandria 9h ago

Yeah i was gonna say, didnt they do this ages ago? I hadn’t even realized desktop still had it. I don’t think I even know anyone who uses desktop for YouTube anymore.

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u/Winderkorffin 9h ago

I spend basically 15 hours a day on my PC, so yeah, I do use Youtube on desktop lol

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u/Telandria 9h ago

Perhaps, but I don’t know you.

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u/DerGrummler 9h ago

I don’t think I even know anyone who uses desktop for YouTube anymore.

Everyone working with a desktop, aka your average white collar job, uses YouTube on desktop.

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u/Elavia_ 9h ago

This is the wildest take I heard this year. YouTube is completely unusable without an adblocker and a sponsorblocker, you can get them on mobile but you're either running it in browser which is inconvenient or fighting revanced.