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This article started out talking about what good signals are to drive a recommendation algo, but it ended up concluding with all the different ways YouTube goes

This article started out talking about what good signals are to drive a recommendation algo, but it ended up concluding with all the different ways YouTube goes against those signals to censor videos or otherwise manually tune your feed instead. The meaning of "recommendation" seems to have shifted from "what we think you want" to "what we want for you." It's not a wrong use of the word, just different from what you might expect.

seneca 5y ago
> The meaning of "recommendation" seems to have shifted from "what we think you want" to "what we want for you." I think this is a pretty fantastic summary of what has gone wrong with a lot of big tech. Facebook, Twitter, youtube, Google search, iOS, Android, and Windows all have moved toward taking away user control and trying to move you toward more of what they want you to want. If it's not recommendations, it's forced updates, device scanning, or "influencers". We badly need some of that disruption these same companies used to preach about. The current cohort is becoming ossified and user hostile, just like the companies they replaced.