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I don't know the Youtube API, but the current method of viewing dislikes is to log out or open a private window. Dislikes are shown just as before.

youtube is probably a/b testing it.

No, they're not showing dislikes to creators on their own videos. The rest still gets to see dislikes.

At least, that was my takeaway.

The other way round. Only creators will be able to see the dislike count, probably in their dashboard

this is correct i read the article... dunno why we have a chain of speculation here

no, they just havent completely rolled out the change yet. it has 2 parts

- removing the UI element: half done

- removing the server data: todo