Youtube Buttons like Dislike, Not Interested Barely Work
Several people have expressed frustration with the user controls and said that they wanted better tools that simply work the way they’d expect them to. According to the report: It is quite obvious from the reports that Google-owned YouTube’s user control mechanisms are inadequate for preventing unwanted recommendations. YouTube is the second most visited website in the world, and its algorithm drives most of the video views on the platform but the bad part is that its user controls are frustrating people. The researchers noted that: According to Mozilla’s research tool RegretsReporter, 22,722 users allowed data about their interactions with Youtube, representing the largest experimental audit of Youtube by independent researchers, powered by crowdsourced data. Moreover, they further looked at what happened over time to people’s recommended videos after they had used one of YouTube’s feedback tools including buttons like ‘Dislike’ and ‘Don’t Recommend Channel’. Mozilla report further stated that: The fact is that YouTube needs to overhaul its ineffective user controls and replace them with a system in which people’s satisfaction and well-being are treated as the most important signals. People are quite stressed about it. So, being a popular app Youtube needs to work on it. Also See: Now You Can Directly Share Reels On Facebook Pages From Third-Party Apps
