Trying to tailor the suggested videos to your tastes doesn’t seem to really work.
The mozilla foundation, through a study recently published on its website, has shown us the conclusions it has been able to obtain by analyzing the way in which the Google platform displays content and shapes its recommendations. Have been 22,722 volunteers those who have participated in the researchwho has attempted to determine the control that people have about him algorithm of recommendations. Now we discuss it in depth.
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An algorithm that works on its own and does not let the user compose their ideal platform
Both main conclusions and fast that can be obtained in the first instance are, on the one hand, that the people feel like they have no control on the recommendations, in addition to, secondly, verifying that this fact is not a simple sensation, but rather something verified. It is at this point where the bad recommendationswhich would be those recommended videos that are similar to the content that had previously been indicated to stop showing.
Even though the bad recommendations can be controlled in a certain way, the foundation’s research shows amazing data. Users who indicated a video with a ‘Dislike’obtained similar recommendations by 35% of the occasions, a percentage similar to that of the control group, which approached 40%. It might seem that bookmark a video what for No I’ll give it back to you recommend will have some effect on the algorithm, but in a 22% of the recommendations appeared similar content. Even delete video from history did not prevent similar videos from being recommended in the 28% of the times
In a real casepublished in the aforementioned research, showed a video titled ‘Grandma Eats Cookie Dough for Lunch for a Week, Here’s What Happens to Her Bones’. Three months latersimilar content, continued to appear among the recommendations of the user. The Mozilla Foundation has launched an online petition for YouTube to grant royal control about what is recommended for users and let them be the ones who adapt the platform to their tastes. For the moment, we will have to settle for seeing the content we are subscribed to and wait patiently for a redesign of the streaming service.