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Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets

posted by martyb on Friday September 13 2019, @03:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the Why-is-it-you-can-"regret"-but-cannot-just-"gret"? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/12/20862352/youtube-algorithm-recommendation-social-campaign-mozilla-firefox

Mozilla is trying to shame YouTube into doing more to fix its numerous recommendation algorithm issues, many of which can lead users down dangerous content spirals.

With a new social media campaign called #YouTubeRegrets, Mozilla is asking people to submit their own experiences of falling down the recommendation rabbit hole, and discuss how they got from point A to point B. Everything is done through a Google Doc, which includes a little more information about the project.

"Once, at 2 a.m., you searched YouTube for 'Did aliens build Stonehenge?' Ever since, your YouTube recommendations have been a mess: Roswell, wormholes, Illuminati," Mozilla writes. "YouTube's recommendation engine can lead users down bizarre rabbit holes — and they're not always harmless."

If, somehow, you find insufficient distraction on YouTube, check out this oldie-but-goodie 19 Wikipedia Pages That'll Send You Into A Week-Long Wikihole. It's exactly what's on the tin; highly recommended. Unless you have too much to do; in that case do NOT go there.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @06:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @06:10PM (#893777)

    Really, I keep seeing and hearing about all these people with crazy, awful recommendations.

    My Youtube feed is mostly car racing and tech stuff. The closest thing to really mucking up my recommendations was watching a video about mountain biking, and now there's a bunch of cycling videos on my feed, but cycling is pretty cool.

  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @08:20PM (#893835)

    Cycling is literally what hitler told people to do after taking peoples guns and telling them to be vegetarians