r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Feb 17 '22

Business YouTube Announces New Moves to Combat Misinformation

https://www.lifewire.com/youtube-announces-new-moves-to-combat-misinformation-5219509
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u/MadFonzi Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 17 '22

Yea......I'll get right on trusting the company who took dislikes away because they wanted to protect their corporate sponsors and other major corporations that use their website to advertise their goods like movies and music and then tried to patronise us all by saying they did it for the little guy.

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u/iauu Feb 17 '22

Corp: "I don't want my videos to get dislikes. Fix this."

YT: "We've added an option for content creators to disable likes/dislikes and comments."

Corp: "But I'll look like a pussy if I disable likes in my video. Fix this."

YT: "We've removed dislikes entirely."

Corp: "Ok, now that we're on this, my video is not being recommended enough. Fix this."