YouTube keeps the suggestion algorithm a secret, preventing researchers from studying how it works. The study, commissioned by Firefox maker Mozilla, collected responses from nearly 40,000 YouTube ...

Almost every day, YouTube’s engineers experiment on us without our knowledge. They tweak video recommendations for subsets of users, review the results, and tweak again. Ideally, YouTube wants more ...

YouTube's recommendation algorithm focuses on individual videos, not channel averages. YouTube aims to show videos that align with your interests and preferences. The algorithm doesn't punish channels ...