YouTube starts hiding dislike counts across all videos for everyone

(Pocket-lint) - Public dislike counts connected YouTube videos are a happening of the past.

Effective immediately, arsenic of Wednesday 10 November 2021, YouTube volition fell nationalist dislike counts connected each videos crossed its site. The institution said the crushed is to support smaller creators from being harassed by dislike mob attacks and to beforehand “respectful interactions betwixt viewers and creators".

To beryllium clear, the dislike fastener volition inactive beryllium disposable for backstage feedback. Creators tin spot the dislike numbers for their ain video via YouTube Studio. The fig of dislikes is conscionable nary longer disposable for each to see. If you're a well-meaning viewer, this alteration undoubtedly makes it harder for you to justice a video's like-to-dislike ratio and to determine whether to watch. But it besides makes it little casual and speedy for others to publically shame video creators.

Last March, YouTube archetypal revealed it was considering hiding nationalist dislike counts, and immoderate creators person agelong had the quality to fell them. Now, it's announcing they volition vanish - gradually - for everyone. When it tested hiding dislike numbers, YouTube recovered radical were little apt to usage the button. 

Keep successful caput different societal networks person experimented with hiding nationalist standing metrics. Instagram, for instance, even lets you fell similar counts.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 10 November 2021.