• Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Unless YouTube is using that data to not recommend crappy videos, then it’s completely pointless. If YouTube was going to use that data, then they would, oh, I don’t know, maybe still have a dislike button?

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      1 month ago

      Unless YouTube is using that data to not recommend crappy videos, then it’s completely pointless.

      YouTube never did that anyway. YouTube recommends videos on user engagement. Thumb buttons in any direction are engagement. They have slightly hidden “don’t recommend video/channel” options for that.

      What RYD does is to show what others think.