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by Crosseye_Jack 1682 days ago
The public dislike count will be removed from the API next month unless the api call is authed with an account associated with the channel.
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bpodgursky 1682 days ago
God. Even if you buy the "social experience" argument (which I don't really), removing it from the API for non-owners is just malicious.
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Crosseye_Jack 1682 days ago
Well the reason they state in the email is "To make the dislike count private across the platform, we also will be removing public access to the dislike count data via our API."

But if you have a system that doesn't display the dislike count publicly you can apply for a exemption.

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endisneigh 1682 days ago
Why?
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