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The trend continues...

Tiktok pushed the passive user experience further, and youtube is following. The ideal is user launches app, the app takes care of everything else. Looking at the downvote count is just an extra thing the user can, might or should do. The trend is to reduce these. Youtube's being trendy.

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That's a charitable interpretation. I posit these products are actually designed to further diminish the range of thought and serve to eliminate discontent, resistance and ultimately political opposition.

The only videos I have seen with downvotes that outweigh upvotes are politically controversial.

I’m surprised they didn’t do this sooner to be honest, thought they’ve been letting news outlets turn them off for some time now.

Look at the downvotes on videos from the white house. It's obvious what's going on.

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