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YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is unresponsive to user feedback, according to Mozilla

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is unresponsive to user feedback, according to Mozilla

Mozilla researchers analyzed seven months of YouTube activity from over 20,000 participants to evaluate four ways that YouTube says people can “tune their recommendations”—hitting Dislike, Not interested, Remove from history, or Don’t recommend this channel. They wanted to see how effective these controls really are.  Every participant installed a browser extension that added a Stop […]