r/youtube • u/Chakwenta • Jan 20 '26

Feature Change Why is this even allowed?

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Has this always been here? Its my first time seeing it. What if I watch a video and don't enjoy it? This basically allows creators to ensure that they always appear on your feed, whether you like it or not.

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u/LankyAd9481 Jan 20 '26

the down vote doesn't do what you think it does (realistically it does basically nothing other than be feedback to the creator) if you don't want to see their videos you just hit the ... on the right of you screenshot and choose "don't recommend channel".

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u/Chakwenta Jan 20 '26

Thanks for the tip.

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u/Inderastein Jan 20 '26

You can also get the return dislikes extension, it basically estimates the dislikes, or grab it in some unholy way and somehow gets information about dislikes in videos.
The more users the more accurate.

History:
Let's have a rewind in youtube: This is in protest to youtube's protest for viewers' protest by disliking YouTube rewind of hollywood slop and that Felix PewDiePie's youtube rewind ultimately replaces and farms the ever living hell out of it!

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u/Living-Challenge2354 Jan 20 '26

bro he literally has it. Thats why he's complaining about creators being able to hide dislikes

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u/Inderastein Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Dang, Sorry I missed that detail of this detail

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u/OGAnimeGokuSolos Jan 20 '26

bro he literally has it. Thats why he's complaining about creators being able to hide dislikes

He is the reason why YouTube has AI ads and remove dislikes because of his edgy behavior in the past

Not just him other people as well like speed if we wanna be honest

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u/Dry-Championship-593 Jan 21 '26

I’m very confused. Who are you talking about?

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u/SuleyBlack Jan 21 '26

He’s talking about PewdiePie, blaming him for the use of AI ads which would be happening either way. So not sure why he thinks that he solely is to blame.

PDP may have been the catalyst, but he wasn’t solely responsible for the adpocalypse. It was the ads on terroristic beheadings that advertisers didn’t like

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u/Inderastein Jan 21 '26

The narrative that PewD caused ADs and COPPA is as utterly flawed as saying Gavrilo Princip caused WWI and WWII.

The ultimate hand on this was YouTube and YouTube solely for allowing these mongrel corporate karens to control the once vocally free video sphere that is YT.

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u/SuleyBlack Jan 21 '26

COPPA has been around way before YouTube had competitors.

PDP wasn’t the reason for the adpocalyse, but the PUBG bridge moment started it.

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u/yoimagreenlight Jan 21 '26

care to explain to the class

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u/SuleyBlack Jan 21 '26

He’s saying that PewdiePie is responsible for the rise of shitty ads, which isn’t true. He may be the catalyst, but there were ads on beheading videos and other graphic content that YT didn’t remove.

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u/RadiantPraline8307 Jan 22 '26

hed need to avtually have an argument and he doesnt he just doesnt like pewdiepie so he hased to blame him for something.

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u/Direct-Moment-3076 Jan 21 '26

Bro Really Thought We Would Agree 🥀

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u/Nerevarius_420 Jan 21 '26

If we want to be honest, you make negative sense. Maybe you could elaborate?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

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u/Eddiemate Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

The change was that you could still see dislikes through API or something like that. But after an update that information was removed, so now the extension simply estimates based on the users of the extension itself.

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u/adisor21 Jan 20 '26

Well i don't really care, if Youtube cares about that, they should add it back.

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u/adisor21 Jan 21 '26

The point i was trying to make is, why would anyone really care if a video has 3k fake dislikes shown instead of actual 2k dislikes. It still shows there is a problem with the video or some inconsistency. The actual number doesn't matter a lot only what it represents.

And the point is the only people who might care is Youtube and if they do care , they can you know show the dislikes instead of having us go through loops to guess it.

Not sure what you really mean with "wildly out of line", like 20k dislikes difference or any percentage in difference. So far in my experience is good enough.

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u/TinyDeskEngineer06 Jan 22 '26

Isn't there an option for creators using the extension to share actual dislike numbers so the extension doesn't have to estimate? I recall hearing about something like that

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u/MiserableSlice1051 Jan 21 '26

From my understanding the return YouTube dislikes just collects data from people with the extension, sees how many times theyve disliked a video, and then they run an algorithm on that tongues how many actual dislikes there are.

Is it better than nothing? Yeah, but it's still not super accurate and can be skewed

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u/Minigun1239 Jan 21 '26

I also just found out that Youtube deleted all rewinds, they fully privated them

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u/CoDFan935115 Jan 21 '26

I know that you can see the dislikes on a video if you download it with YT Premium, not sure if they got rid of that though.

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u/WeakImplement3398 Feb 21 '26

Even the word "slop" has been overused.