The linked report [0] is dated today and uses data from the RegretsReporter extension [1] and additional surveys from December 2021, which is basically when you

The linked report [0] is dated today and uses data from the RegretsReporter extension [1] and additional surveys from December 2021, which is basically when youtube removed the dislike counter [2]. It's both suprising and not that suprising to see quantitatively how little disliking or telling youtube to not reccomend channels or content has an impact on the algorithm. They also rightfully point out how much of a pain it is to try to provide negative feedback to youtube's reccomendation system. It's always been a chore to remove the hot new trending clickbait from the reccomendations. I sadly doubt that this report will change much, but it's good to finally have some statistical validation of what I've frustrating subjectively experienced. [0]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/user-controls/report/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/user-cont... [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/regretsreporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/regretsreport... [2]: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/