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		rgrs on Nov 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making the dislike count private across YouTube > brigaded by adversial community Not necessarily. There are other cases where consumers could use dislike as form of brand boycott

mitigating on Nov 11, 2021 [–]

Isn't that similar because the dislike value isn't related to the specific video but a person's opinion of the brand.

For example if you wanted to watch a video on how to setup WSL 2 on Windows 10 and you see one by Microsoft has 100000 dislikes however it's amazing video that doesn't help you.

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