YouTube announced Wednesday that it will hide dislike counts on all its videos, claiming it wants to curb “creator harassment.” On Wednesday, the Google-owned company said it will make the metric private after testing it earlier in the year and seeing the number of so-called “dislike mobs” decrease. The like button and count will remain visible, according to YouTube, which posted a screenshot of the new look. The dislike button shows no counts. “We also heard directly from smaller creators and those just getting started that they are unfairly targeted by this behavior—and our experiment confirmed that this does occur at a higher proportion on smaller channels,” YouTube said in a blog post. The firm concluded that based on its analysis, it will make “the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away,” starting Wednesday. Video uploaders “will still be able to find their exact dislike …
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