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/teaguechrystie 10h ago

remember when netflix had a five star user review system?

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u/loki1887 10h ago

They had full user reviews. They would refer you to a page where you would rate a ton of movies and then it would build a profile about based on your taste. The red stars on a movie was what they estimated you would rate it based on your tastes.

Then the user reviews had a percentage next to the user name based on how alike their tastes were to yours. So if you read a review about a movie that was good and saw the user had a 87% similarity to you, you had a good chance of enjoying that movie too.

And it was pretty accurate for me (after rating hundreds, if not thousands, of movies).

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u/3FtDick 9h ago

Netflix really was a film-buff's dream when it first came out. I had a new dvd every other day. I watched so many obscure old french films using netflix. The community side of it was so rich, then they just removed it all. The backlog of films I had on my list got lost, it was just a bummer.