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by Mountain_Skies 691 days ago
YouTube didn't help things any when they neutered the dislike button. It's still there but functionally useless. Yes, we all know why they did it to save the feelings of a few political staffers at campaigns aligned with the values of workers at Google but it's been an absolute godsend for scammers and terrible for signaling interests to the recommendation engine.