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Mozilla is Sharing YouTube Horror Stories To Prod Google For More Transparency (cnet.com) 58

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:34PM from the video-regrets dept.

CNET reports on a new crowdsourced public awareness campaign: Mozilla is publishing anecdotes of YouTube viewing gone awry -- anonymous stories from people who say they innocently searched for one thing but eventually ended up in a dark rabbit hole of videos. It's a campaign aimed at pressuring Google's massive video site to make itself more accessible to independent researchers trying to study its algorithms. "The big problem is we have no idea what is happening on YouTube," said Guillaume Chaslot, who is a fellow at Mozilla, a nonprofit best known for its unit that makes and operates the Firefox web browser.

Chaslot is an ex-Google engineer who has investigated YouTube's recommendations from the outside after he left the company in 2013. (YouTube says he was fired for performance issues.) "We can see that there are problems, but we have no idea if the problem is from people being people or from algorithms," he said....

Mozilla is publishing 28 stories it's terming #YouTubeRegrets; they include, for example, an anecdote from someone who who said a search for German folk songs ended up returning neo-Nazi clips, and a testimonial from a mother who said her 10-year-old daughter searched for tap-dancing videos and ended up watching extreme contortionist clips that affected her body image.

Comment Re:How paltry.... (Score 1) 291

by lythotype on Sunday March 09, 2008 @10:50AM (#22692404) Attached to: Verizon, Fiber Or Die?

That "locally owned company" wouldn't be EPB in Chattanooga would it?

Locally the only options are 15/10/6/3/1.5/.256 DSL from CenturyTel (BellSouth DSL has similar options) and 6 from Comcast. Both companies seem to hover right around the $50 per month price.

Hopefully EPB would help bring those prices down to a more reasonable level.

Feed Science Daily: Zinc Lozenges Are Not An Effective Treatment For Colds, According to Analysis of (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:13PM

Despite twenty years of research, the benefits of zinc lozenges as a therapy for the common cold have not been proven. A new study reviews the 14 placebo-controlled studies from the past two decades and finds significant fault with 10 of the studies. Of the four remaining studies, three reported no therapeutic effect from zinc lozenge or nasal spray, and one study reported positive results from zinc nasal gel.

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