YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button inside the three-dot menu on regular videos Users are unhappy that giving negative feedback could soon take an extra step, following YouTube’s earlier removal of public dislike counts
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Oct 22, 2026 · 3:58 AM UTC

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Why hide the dislike button? It did nothing wrong
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They hid the dislike count back in 2021. Now they're hiding the button. Every government comms office in Ottawa is taking notes.
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Let's not forget they removed public dislikes to help control the narrative. They removed it in December 2021 after removing over a million videos on COVID by August 25 that same year. They'd rather hide dislikes altogether than have everyone see how unpopular their politics are.
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This will make it harder for users to quickly flag clickbait or bad info. It basically silences negative feedback to protect watch time, not viewers.
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next UI update they’re gonna force us to watch a 30 second unskippable ad before letting us dislike a scam tutorial
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People are sensitive af
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so it would take us extra steps and effort to dislike a bad video
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We need 👎button
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the fact that they're hiding it to make it more inconvenient to access goes to tell you the dishonesty behind this company and it's intentional anti-user interface we need an alt from this garbage
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hiding the dislike button in a menu is so petty. just let people be mad in peace 🙄
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Fuck sake just delete the whole like/dislike system at this point. Hell delete comments while you’re at it. In fact just take YouTube offline. Fuck it.
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these people are fuckin retarded. bring the dislike button back and finally give viewers some transparency and info on a video. it was literally the best thing youtube had and now its all gone to shit.
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YouTube removing dislikes after having the most disliked videos is seriously depressing from YouTube
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They think we'll forget about Rewind 2018
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I say this my all due respect. Fuck YouTube!
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And users like us will reinstall the dislike plugin in Firefox. I'm already sick of the click bait, the Aai generated thumbnails, and a 30 min video with 28 min of self advertising and nothing involving the video as a whole.
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i havent seen like-dislike on a video in ages. has really no meaning to me these days. if i like a video, i 'like' and move on. dont like? immediate scroll.
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That's because the tyrants there don't like free speech. Remember 2020? Covid and election fraud got ya shut down. Bastards. I boycotted that POS platform ever since.
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Am at my limit if this keeps up
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I stopped using YouTube since they removed the dislike on shorts and added the stupid heart. They decided to copy the other braindead social media platforms instead of keeping original. Pathetic....
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you already cant dislike shorts, unless they hid that
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Man Fuck YT, what the fuck is wrong with them. We need dislike button with dislikes visible like before! If a content is misleading, or, Sucks, let it be known to every fucking body!
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Holy shit, just remove it at this point YouTube, we know that's what you're trying to do.
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This will cause many people to go entitlement mode soon like "everyone loves me videos! I have not made a bad video yet!" After something atrocious thing happened 🫩
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@nealmohan seriously needs to be fired
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Youtube will do anything to get you to stop disliking videos except promote good videos, I swear my home feed is full of the dumbest shit and no amount of picking not interested or don't recommend channel fixes it.
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Just bring it back so people know if a video is shot or not
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instead of working on new features they are worried about existing worthless ones
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I cannot even see my own videos how much there is dislikes so what is the point
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Like, if they do, as a community, could every just dislike every video they watch for a week or soemthing?
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Suddenly having Elon Musk Buy and become the new CEO of YouTube doesn’t seem that bad of an idea now.
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Atp just remove it completely
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L move youtube bring back dislikes
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They dont care about us
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Freedom of opinion screw ads
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social media company try to make 1 good decision challenge
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