An ex-Google engineer is scraping YouTube to pop our filter bubbles | MIT Technology Review
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He’s built a website that lets you see how often YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos, so you can find out where it wants to take you. If you’ve ever used YouTube, you’ve probably noticed that it’s easy to fall into a sort of viewing trance : you start out watching a funny cat video, and suddenly it’s an hour later and you’ve blown through a bunch more—each one recommended to you on the right side of the screen, served up helpfully by the site’s algorithm. As we’re increasingly learning from (...)
