moe90YouTube is cracking down on clickbait
penquinThe fix was there, but they removed it. The dislike button. Fucking unbelievable how stupid these companies are.
woelkchenThe fix was there, but they removed it.
Return YouTube Dislikes still exists. The likes and dislikes of RYD users are stored in an external database, so Google cannot take them away.
Null User ObjectUnless YouTube is using that data to not recommend crappy videos, then it’s completely pointless. If YouTube was going to use that data, then they would, oh, I don’t know, maybe still have a dislike button?
Unless YouTube is using that data to not recommend crappy videos, then it’s completely pointless.
YouTube never did that anyway. YouTube recommends videos on user engagement. Thumb buttons in any direction are engagement. They have slightly hidden “don’t recommend video/channel” options for that.
What RYD does is to show what others think.
GormadtThe fact they never used that data in video recommendations is surprising, and if they started to factor it in would have probably helped make this less of an issue
The fact they never used that data in video recommendations is surprising
So you never clicked dislike, just to get recommendations for the same channel / type of video over and over again? I thought everyone figured that out by now. These are the menu items that actually do the trick: