Mozilla Releases RegretsReporter Browser Extension to Analyze YouTube Recommendations Engine

It is available for Firefox, Google Chrome

Mozilla continued to take YouTube’s recommendations engine to task, this time in the form of an extension for its Firefox browser and Google Chrome.

The nonprofit released the RegretsReporter extension this week with the aim of crowdsourcing research into issues with YouTube’s recommendations engine and better understanding why those issues exist.

Mozilla vice president of advocacy and engagement Ashley Boyd said in a blog post, “YouTube recommendations can be delightful, but they can also be dangerous. The platform has a history of recommending harmful content—from pandemic

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