YouTube will now hide public dislike counts on videos
India Today
YouTube has announced that it would stop displaying dislike counts on videos. But the dislike button will not be removed.
YouTube has rolled out a much-needed update that will be highly beneficial for the creators across the website. The company has announced that it would stop displaying dislike counts on videos. This does not mean that users will not see the dislike button or will not be able to use it, it just means that the dislike count would not be visible to the visitors. The company says that this step would protect the creators from targeted harassment.
YouTube is often misused by people to take out their personal vendetta against an actor or an influencer. People from groups in large numbers and deliberately hit the dislike button in a video of a person they dislike. Sometimes only motive of such groups is to increase the dislike count. When the entire Bollywood was targeted after Sushant Singh Rajput’s untimely death, users purposely tapped on the dislike button on any video that featured the top Bollywood actors including Salman Khan or any film song from Karan Johar’s movie. However, things are changing now on YouTube and changing for good. The dislike count which fancied a lot of people will not be visible anymore.