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/zrad603 9h ago

I can't believe YouTube doesn't have a "block channel" feature. I'm sick of accidentally clicking on the same clickbait AI generated YouTube channels.

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u/InevitableAvalanche 8h ago

All these social media sites are about controlling what you think, not giving you what you want.

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u/ruggnuget 8h ago

Hard disagree. Its about keeping you watching. If you watch more because you are angry then angry topics will get promoted. As long as you arent gaining class consciousness they dont care about what side of whatever hot button topic is popular. As long as you keep watching.

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u/zrad603 8h ago

they just want eyeballs on ads, but advertisers probably don't want to pay for ads on AI slop.

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u/InevitableAvalanche 3h ago

Nah, they also want to shape your opinion.

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u/racksy 1h ago

they want both.

they want to control your window to the world and also for you to click on ads.

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u/E_Dward 8h ago

They exploit our brains reward systems by only occasionally showing us what we want, that way we get a bigger dopamine hit when we finally see something we're interested in. It's exactly the same principle behind slot machines.