[bpodgursky]

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.

[Crosseye_Jack]

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.

[endisneigh]

Why?