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Just because people don’t talk about it doesn’t mean they like it. I’m still pissed about design changes from 10 years ago. What is the alternative?

Removing dislikes was a huge deal but now nobody talks about it.

Well, yeah? What are the users going to do about it? Complain forever even though it's not going to do anything?

By the way, I still see it mentioned occasionally, both in YouTube videos themselves (often when someone is talking about YouTube) and amongst my friends. Both as a general complaint about the usability of the site being worse ("I had to wait 90 seconds to realize this video was a waste of time because downvotes are gone") and as an example of a service being able to do whatever it wants without regards to whether users like it or not.

I don't think they've "removed" dislikes for most people; we just use the Restore Dislikes extension (which coincidentally broke for the new layout).

In a week they are going to change the design two times, this A/B testing on their side in the last 3 months has been crazy.