{"id":14133,"date":"2022-09-20T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dataethics.eu\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:46:14","slug":"investigation-shows-that-youtubes-user-controls-are-ineffective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dataethics.eu\/da\/investigation-shows-that-youtubes-user-controls-are-ineffective\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Shows That YouTube&#8217;s User Controls are Ineffective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Google-owned YouTube says that people can manage their video recommendations through <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/6342839\">the feedback tools the platform offers.<\/a> But do YouTube\u2019s user controls actually work? A new <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/research\/library\/user-controls\/report\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\">investigative report<\/a> from Mozilla and co-author Jesse McCrosky, who also writes for DataEthics.eu, shows that they really don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22,722 volunteers donated their data to the non-profit organisation Mozilla, who&#8217;s behind the non-intrusive browser Firefox. The data &#8211;  including recommendations of more than 560 million YouTube videos &#8211; was scrutinized to determine how much control people actually have over the YouTube\u2019s recommendation algorithm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the top findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>People don\u2019t trust YouTube\u2019s user controls.<\/strong> More than a third (39.3%) of the people surveyed felt YouTube\u2019s user controls did not impact their recommendations at all. Said one participant: <em>\u201cNothing changed. Sometimes I would report things as misleading and spam and the next day it was back in [&#8230;] Even when you block certain sources they eventually return.\u201d<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Data confirms people are right.<\/strong> Mozilla&#8217;s analysis of 560 million recommended videos revealed that using the \u201cDo not recommend channel\u201d button prevented only 43% of unwanted recommendations. Other controls had even less of an impact: The \u201cDislike\u201d and \u201cNot interested\u201d buttons only prevented 12%.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/research\/library\/user-controls\/report\/executive-summary\/\">executive summary of the report<\/a>, there are examples of lost control. One participant asked YouTube to stop recommending firearm videos \u2014 but was shortly after recommended more gun content. Another person asked YouTube to stop recommending cryptocurrency get-rich-quick videos, but then was recommended another crypto video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the recommendations of the report is that YouTube should design its feedback tools in a way that puts people in the driver\u2019s seat, and that YouTube should provide researchers with access to better tools that allow them to assess the signals that impact YouTube&#8217;s algorithm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in signing a petition to force YouTube to their users more control, do go to <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/campaigns\/youtube-user-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mozilla&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google-owned YouTube says that people can manage their video recommendations through the feedback tools the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,370],"tags":[1599,4039,2053,3776],"class_list":["post-14133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-mozilla-en","tag-user-control","tag-youtube-en","tag-youtube-regrets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Investigation Shows That YouTube&#039;s User Controls are Ineffective &#183; 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