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/BigBlackHungGuy 10h ago

Youtube needs a competitor.

But I get it. It's a beast to replicate.

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u/Well_Socialized 9h ago

It's easy to replicate the website features, just not the billions hours of content already on there and being added constantly

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u/mtranda 9h ago

The features are trivial, but on top of the billions of hours, the infrastructure associated with those is also collossal.

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u/roderla 8h ago

And, you know, making it free to use when you invest millions into storage and availability. Probably more than millions even for a small competitor.

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u/racksy 1h ago

it’s not free. it’s full of ads and entirely slurps data about the users.

if you want to know how much that data about you is worth, consider this:

if you buy cigarettes from many gas stations, if you attach that one purchase to yourself through their app, they’ll give you sometimes up to $2 off every time. having that data about you from each purchase is worth $2 to them.

youtube is not free.