YouTube Breaks Promise, Removing “Dislike” Button from Shorts

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A while back, YouTube removed public Dislike counts as announced here (emphasis added):

We’re making the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away.

This change will start gradually rolling out today.

Despite such a statement—and perhaps to no one’s surprise—YouTube recently finally added insult to injury by actually removing the Dislike button from Shorts, as announced here:

[W]e’re … retiring the dislike button.

Instead, we’ll rely on … “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel,” to … tune your feed and serve up content….

The update sparked discussion across the web, such as on the r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit.

Thanks a lot, YouTube.

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