Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls
Powered by 22,722 volunteers, Mozilla scrutinized YouTube to determine how much control people actually have over the platform’s recommendation algorithm. This is what we learned.
Written by Becca Ricks and Jesse McCrosky
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