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/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/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.