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My YouTube recommendations were a mess until I tweaked these 7 settings

YouTube is my go-to app for niche tutorials, explainers, and documentaries. It’s also a black hole of clickbait thumbnails and repetitive recommendations. The difference between those two experiences ...
MIT Technology Review

Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the ...
Engadget

Twitter’s recommendation algorithm is now on GitHub

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...
Lifehacker

I Trained My YouTube Algorithm, and You Should Too

If Nielsen stats are to be believed, we collectively spend more time in front of YouTube than any other streaming service—including Disney+ and Netflix. That's a lot of watch hours, especially for an ...
Gizmodo

Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Now Open Source

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...