> aren’t they incentivized to reduce the amount of large categories of content you’d find noxious?
No, they're incentivized to increase the amount of content advertisers find acceptable.
Plus, youtube isn't strictly watching, many people do make a living from the platform and these algorithmic controls are not available to them in any way at all.
> ditching them entirely
Which is why I implied that user oriented control is the factor to care about. Nowhere did I suggest you had to do this, just remove _corporate_ control of that list.
No, they're incentivized to increase the amount of content advertisers find acceptable.
Plus, youtube isn't strictly watching, many people do make a living from the platform and these algorithmic controls are not available to them in any way at all.
> ditching them entirely
Which is why I implied that user oriented control is the factor to care about. Nowhere did I suggest you had to do this, just remove _corporate_ control of that list.