Investigation Shows That YouTube's User Controls are Ineffective

A new investigative report from Mozilla and co-author Jesse McCrosky, who also writes for DataEthics.eu, shows that they really don't.

Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user ...

2. YouTube's user control mechanisms are inadequate for preventing unwanted recommendations. We found that YouTube's user controls influence what is recommended ...

Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user ...

Powered by 22722 volunteers, Mozilla scrutinized YouTube to determine how much control people actually have over the platform's ...

Did you fall down a YouTube rabbit hole? 'Dislike' does NOT work

'People feel that using YouTube's user controls does not change their recommendations at all. We learned that many people take a trial-and-error ...

YouTube 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely help users

It added that Google-owned YouTube's user control mechanisms are inadequate for preventing unwanted recommendations. "We determined that ...

Mozilla report finds YouTube's 'Dislike' buttons ineffective

A new report from Mozilla, the makers of the privacy-focused Firefox browser, suggests that YouTube's user controls are ineffective at ...

Hated that video? YouTube's algorithm might push you another just ...

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube's influential AI recommends.

Turns out YouTube doesn't really care that you dislike a video

In other words, none of YouTube's controls allowed you to prevent even half of all bad recommendations. In fact, some users noted that they ...

Mozilla-Report-YouTube-User-Controls.pdf

Whether a video pair is a bad recommendation or not may be assessed by one of our research assistants, or by our machine learning video similarity model. Bad ...

YouTube's dislike button doesn't do much, says new study - Mashable

More than 39 percent of those surveyed expressed feeling that YouTube's user controls did not impact their recommendations at all, and 23 ...

Mozilla: YouTube's Dislike Button Largely Fails To Stop ... - Slashdot

Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls" is the culmination of months of rigorous qualitative and quantitative research. The study ...

New study reveals what we all know: YouTube's recommendation ...

They found that YouTube's controls have a "negligible" effect on the recommendations participants received. Over the seven months, one rejected ...

Dark Patterns in User Controls: Exploring YouTube's ...

As part of our collaboration with Mozilla's YouTube Regrets project in 2020, our team mapped out and analyzed YouTube controls in order to ...

Amir Tohid on LinkedIn: Investigating YouTube's ineffective user ...

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube's influential AI recommends.

The 'You' in YouTube matters very little when it comes to video ...

For reference, the control group had a bad video recommendation rate of around 40%. Subtracting same-channel video recommendations, that number ...

YouTube's dislike button is barely functional, says Mozilla

The report, titled Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's Ineffective User Controls, comes after a months-long study of YouTube behavior ...

Mike Mason on LinkedIn: Does This Button Work? Investigating ...

... investigate YouTube's user controls -- dislike, show less ... Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls.

FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming ...

... shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consume. ... Companies should address the lack of user control over how their ...

Google is under the spotlight (again) following bad ads claims

New research suggests that Google-owned YouTube sometimes serves ads on content intended for children that could result in online tracking. It's ...

Why Am I Seeing This?: Case Study: YouTube - New America

As highlighted, YouTube does not provide significant transparency around how its recommendation system operates, thus limiting the agency users have over their ...