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YouTube hasn’t removed the dislike button. They have removed the dislike count.

My mistake

My understanding was that they still want to hoover up that sweet sweet preferences data (of which dislike is a useful metric). It's just not going to be exposed externally.

They do and you can install extensions to see the dislike count though sadly they slow down my experience every time Ive tried them (at least on Windows Chrome).

You cannot longer see the true like/dislike ratio. They removed the dislike count even from the API since December 13th [0]. The extension does some guesswork to calculate that for you [1].

This library also doesn't give you the dislikes anymore (just tested it).

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...

[1] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike#what-it-do...

Ah I wasn't aware. For what is worth the gueswork does seem accurate enough to be useful on the videos I tested last time.