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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>YouTube introduced a \u201crecommendations\u201d feature recently for viewers dissatisfied with the videos the platform has recommended to them.<\/p>\n

By pressing the \u201cdislike\u201d button the user indicates that he or she would not want to watch similar videos but reports state that the button may not make a big difference.<\/p>\n

While YouTube is the second most visited website in the world, the pressure is getting more real as it faces competition from other applications that still want to look like they are relevant.<\/p>\n

In support of this, recent research by Mozilla, the foundation behind the Firefox web browser, buttons like \u201cnot interested,\u201d \u201cdislike,\u201d \u201cstop recommending channel,\u201d and \u201cremove from watch history\u201d are largely ineffective at preventing similar content from being recommended.<\/p>\n

The study analysed more than 567 million YouTube video recommendations with the help of 22,700 participants.<\/p>\n

The researchers used a tool called, Regret Reporter, which Mozilla developed to study YouTube\u2019s recommendation algorithm.<\/p>\n

It collected data on participants\u2019 experiences on the platform.<\/p>\n

Results<\/b><\/p>\n

The researchers found that \u201cDon\u2019t recommend channel\u201d and \u201cremove from history\u201d buttons were slightly more effective as they prevented 43 per cent and 29 per cent of bad recommendations.<\/p>\n

Sending the \u201cdislike\u201d and \u201cnot interested\u201d signals were only \u201cmarginally effective\u201d at preventing bad recommendations, preventing 12 per cent of 11 per cent of bad recommendations, respectively.<\/p>\n

Researchers suggested that the tools offered by the platform are still inadequate for steering away unwanted content.<\/p>\n

\u201cYouTube should respect the feedback users share about their experience, treating them as meaningful signals about how people want to spend their time on the platform,\u201d researchers wrote on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes they did change, but in a bad way. In a way, I feel punished for proactively trying to change the algorithm’s behavior. In some ways, less interaction provides less data on which to base the recommendations.\u201d (Survey ID112) wrote.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eritrea. YouTube introduced a \u201crecommendations\u201d feature recently for viewers dissatisfied with the videos the platform has recommended to them. By pressing the \u201cdislike\u201d button the user indicates that he or she would not want to watch similar videos but reports state that the button may not make a big difference. 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