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You can click "Not interested" on each of the videos recommended to you and you will get fewer videos of that kind or from that channel. Half of those stories are about helpless people or people having mental health issues, in which case unrestricted internet access will always be a problem. I personally don't get the point or suggested solution of the article, could anyone explain what their suggested solution is?

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I don't know what OP's suggested solution is, but if I had my way, I'd just eliminate recommendations entirely, in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search (eg "give me more cute puppy videos"). Especially since so many people seem to have so many problems with recommendations, it's clearly not bringing value to life, so just get rid of it.

Of course Google won't, because it would dramatically reduce watch time and their advertisers wouldn't like that. But a man can dream

> in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search

Because the people looking for visibility on their conspiracy video would never tag their video with high-visibility keywords like "cute" and "puppies"!

Dumb metadata-based search and content recommendation is not the way forward. Google's original contribution to the web was pulling us out of that tarpit - SEO prior to PageRank was a wreck.

There is no proposed solution, the article exists solely to bring attention to a perceived issue while applying pressure upon greater forces to enact some form of subjectively positive change.

Clicking "Not interested" Doesnt work. Its either a placebo button, or its implemented in a funny way like on Twitch.

Twitch also has "Not interested" button, but what they never mention anywhere is that it simply pushes stuff into 1000 size limited FILO list. You know, 1000 entries because storage is expensive at Amazon.

regulate the corporate monopoly that has taken over some significant percentage of terrestrial tv eyeball time with a video sharing website?

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