• udc@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Does anyone know is there a reason why they got rid of dislike? I’d have thought they’d want it to help improve recommendations?

    • fodor@lemmy.zip
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      21 minutes ago

      They want more money. Helping the user is only good if it makes money. Anyway, down votes give viewers more information, and probably YT wants to doctor the data in a way that downvotes block.

      For example, I would always downvote AI content if allowed. So would countless others. But YT wants people to watch it, right? So they gotta suppress our negative feedback.