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YouTube Dislikes To Be Made Private

YouTube Dislikes

YouTube Dislikes are all set for a major change. The #1 video watching platform has announced that it’s making a change on how YouTube dislikes would be displayed on videos, making it a a more private affair, rather than being a public one.

in the words of YouTube’s Creator Liaison Matt Koval –

YouTube dislikes video

This change comes as a result of attacks on certain users, wherein the YouTube dislikes harmed the video performance.

As explained –

“Groups of viewers are targeting a video’s dislike button to drive up the count, turning it into something like a game with a visible scoreboard, and it’s usually just because they don’t like the creator or what they stand for. That’s a big problem when half of YouTube’s mission is to give everyone a voice.”

Earlier this year, the Google owned platform was running some tests on certain accounts to make YouTube Likes private. Seems like the tests have been successful and YouTube dislikes ‘hide’ option will be a private affair for all users.

YouTube notes that creators will still be able to find their exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio, so the feedback element will still be accessible. But users won’t have a dislike count to go on – which could impact usage to some degree, by limiting your insight into a video’s performance. But YouTube has clearly weighed the impacts, and decided to go with the removal of the count.

YouTube Dislikes would be hidden by default with no option to show it on certain pages.

Earlier this year, Facebook owned platform Instagram did a similar move by hiding likes on Instagram posts. But, that is optional, i.e., a user may choose to hide likes or may choose to display it.

A good and significant move by YouTube to Hide YouTube Likes. Let’s see how this shapes up when it is circulated.

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