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YouTube getting rid of dislikes could be a good opportunity for you to build something.

First of all, I'm not technical at all, I got a basic understanding of a few languages, but I can't code stuff.
I was just thinking that youtube getting rid of likes can open the opportunity for someone to create an extension that allows people to see them.

My thought process.
A lot of people decide if they will watch a video or not based on the number of likes/dislikes. So, if you create an extension that allows them to see that, then they might find it useful.

The first "bump on the road"
Now, as of now, people can click the dislike buttons, but only the actual channel owners are able to see the real number, so you might have to create an insentive for channel owners to install your extension that would make that available for others to see.
(I know this can probably be way too complicated as it creates friction in the process)
Now, another way you could go around this is to try to partner up with vidIQ (or similar) because they might already be able to get that information directly from the accounts that use them.


So, that was just a random thought that might inspire someone to look into that. If you think you can add something to the post, just share it down in the comments, so if someone decides to tackle this then they can have a lot of insight/thoughts/ideas on how to go about it.

on November 19, 2021
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    YouTube getting rid of dislikes has both positive and negative effects.
    People providing misleading information on trending topics will continue getting views.
    While people judging based on dislikes will not be able to see dislikes on the video.

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    As far as I know, the developer api that YouTube provides will also discontinue the functionality to access video dislikes

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      oh, I haven't looked into that, I only saw that it would only become accessible to the channel owner.

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    Even assuming that the channel owner has some incentive to show how many dislikes they got; to see the dislikes, the users also have to install the plugin.

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      Yup, that's why I mentioned vidIQ, maybe they might already have access to that data from users that use it.
      But yea, it seems like something that could be hard to make it work because of that aspect.