> Those in the experiment could still see and use the public dislike button, but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count.

I don't understand this part. So, hiding the dislike count means less people will dislike.

Then what's the point of disliking a video? It provides much less feedback to a creator than just commenting, it's more often used as a signal to other viewers. If it's hidden, there's really no point of including it at all. In fact, why not remove likes too? And while we're at it, let's remove the view count too.

This is a really strange change, and I'm not sure that I'm happy about it.

BTW, you appear to be shadowbanned: many of your comments and all but one submission show as [dead] to me (although some of your comments have been vouched for, which unkills them).

Looking through the demo site, it really seems like it's just a copy paste of the real thing. It even collects analytics the same way.

This is not how you build a FOSS alternative.

Yep, we saw it happen live.

I remember hearing about this a while ago, but back then it was based on Electron for some reason.

Looks like it has been completely rewritten since then?

Edit: https://medium.com/dot-blog/saying-goodbye-to-the-electron-v...

Yes, it used to be based on Electron. Although the date on the blog posts is off because we migrated our old blog posts to Medium back in June.

Does any one know what's up with all the different domains for archive.is?

The blog is at blog.archive.today, it calls itself the "archive.is blog", but when I visit archive.is or archive.today, I'm brought to archive.vn. When I click the "archive.today" logo in the header, I'm taken to archive.ph

According to my understanding: archive.today/archive.is are the main domains the service is known under, others are mirrors selected depending on country you are located in (because of domain bans in some countries).

Site owner said once archive.today is the domain to use when linking because it will automatically redirect to the correct one.

He's mentioned this before. He has multiple domains because they can go down sometimes.

If I made a "now page", I'd probably forget about updating it for a while and then it would become a "then page".

I am much happier with this system, but I don't really see how this would help Google.. Early web advertising used basic page topic based targeting, but clearly more targeted ads make more money, so what monetary benefit does this provide Google?

I think the answer is that Apple killed 3rd party cookies on their browser- which includes every single website view from an iPhone, and Mozilla is working on the same thing. So Google, even with full control of Chrome, the most popular browser, could read the writing on the wall that 3rd party cookie tracking was on its way out. The adtech industry has responded so far in ways that undermine security completely- mostly trying to get their cookies counted as first party (which also means that their scripts can view the first party's data, e.g. they can steal your persistent log-in!).

So Google has been trying to come up with something that Apple will let them get away with. Either give up on targeted advertising to iPhone/iPad users or come up with something better than third party cookies.

> that Apple will let them get away with

Apple has no interest in supporting FLOC at all though right?

:)

YouTube should autoplay the video, at least it does on Chrome

Thanks! I prefer the rickroll, however I can make a special case where if you input a specific code it'll be a "friday-roll". What should the code be?

tgif

The code "tgif" will now take you to Friday.