Susan Wojcicki defended the decision to remove its "dislike" button in a letter to YouTube's online community. Getty Images YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defended the decision to remove its “dislike” ...

YouTube, the popular video streaming platform, is changing how the dislike button works across the Shorts player. In an ongoing experiment, the platform is testing a redesigned dislike button that ...

The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, has explained the company’s controversial decision to remove the dislike button. YouTube is one of the biggest websites out there thanks to its seemingly infinite ...

The dislike counter is about to disappear from your most hated YouTube videos, but the dislike button isn’t going away. YouTube revealed the change in a blog post on Wednesday, which gave some ...

YouTube’s dislike button does not have a direct effect on users’ algorithmic recommendations, according to new data. Mozilla announced Tuesday that it had done a quantitative and qualitative analysis ...

YouTube dislikes online harassment, with the company announcing it will eliminate the ‘thumbs down’ button. The company will remove the dislike counter from all videos, YouTube announced Wednesday.

YouTube is removing public dislike counts on all videos, though the dislike button will remain available for users to customize their recommendations. This permanent change follows an experiment ...

Beginning on Wednesday, YouTube will remove public dislike counts, or the visible tally of how many “thumbs down” a video receives, across its platform. The dislike button will still be accessible so ...

The video service says "dislike attacks" -- campaigns to drive up the number of dislikes on videos -- disproportionately affect smaller channels and newer creators. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior ...

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