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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @10:36PM (1 child)
Back in 2014, I watched some videos on Brendan Eich resigning as Mozilla CEO. YouTube recommendations then lead me down a bizarre rabbit hole of absolute nutjobbery such as men who identify as women. WTF is this bullshit and what can Mozilla do to ensure impressionable people are not exposed to such harmful content?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:06AM
Netcraft confirms. Masculinity is dying. Tomorrow, it might be you who wakes up as a dick girl.
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