| | | | | | Hey, have you had a chance to download RegretsReporter yet? Our new and updated browser extension gives you a simple way to tell YouTube’s algorithm to stop recommending certain videos.
Already downloaded? You’re our hero! Would you share RegretsReporter with your friends and family to help us reach more people? (original message below)
| | | | Hey there,
If you’re anything like the team at Mozilla, you probably spend a lot of time on YouTube. We’re big fans of the things YouTube has to offer — from DIY videos to meditation tracks to clips of old movie trailers. But many of us have also had the not-so-good experience of clicking on one wrong video and getting sucked into a spiral of terrible YouTube recommendations that follow us around for weeks on end.
That’s why we built a tool to help you take back control of your YouTube recommendations. Our updated release of the RegretsReporter browser extension gives you a simple way to tell YouTube’s algorithm to stop recommending certain videos. After you install RegretsReporter, you can also choose to join our crowdsourced research project, investigating what videos people don’t want to be recommended and how YouTube’s algorithm responds to that feedback.
Earlier this year, RegretsReporter data contributed by 37,380 people powered the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into harmful recommendations on YouTube. Our investigation was covered by more than 170 news outlets across 30 countries and — thanks to the effort of people who contributed data — YouTube made changes to its policies and released more information to the public about how it works.
We do this work because we believe that people like you should be in control of online algorithms, not the other way around. If you’re with us on this, please download RegretsReporter and donate data to support our research today. Thanks,
Brandi and the team at Mozilla
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