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/airfryerfuntime 9h ago edited 8h ago

Turn off the suggested feed.

I still use RIF, but with the official app, I noticed all the algorithm driven slop reduced by a lot when I turned off suggested.

Edit: to the people asking about RIF, you can get it running with a patcher like Revanced or Morphe. I have it running through Revanced because I haven't changed it over to Morphe yet. For the longest time, it was pretty broken, with YouTube links and imgur albums not working, but that has been fixed through Revanced. https://github.com/MojiRS/revanced-rif-patches. The Morphe patcher is more limited and hasn't fixed YouTube links yet, I don't believe.

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u/Adlerson 9h ago

This may be a stupid question, but how do I turn off the suggested feed...?

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u/6thseer 9h ago

Settings > Preferences > Show recommendations in home feed toggle! Edit: Preferences not Profile

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u/Borderline-Bullshark 8h ago

This just removes suggested posts, I think the real issue here is the home feed sort that can’t be changed in the app so it defaults and shows many new posts rather than the already curated and voted on posts of hot or top.

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u/RedAero 4h ago

The hot sort has been deprecated. Frankly, I have no idea how people can bear to use "best", because it's 50% week-old shit that I've already seen and there's no point commenting on at this point, or brand new stuff which probably won't go anywhere. Hot wasn't perfect, but it was pretty good.

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u/Borderline-Bullshark 4h ago

I’ve used my browser for my homepage lots because I can sort by hot.

Ever since the Apollo Reddit app went away my Reddit usage has plummeted.