I think most of the suggestion aren't realistic. You can project the same desire for customizability to any software product. For Hacker News:
- Let me configure the order of posts based on voting patterns (hot, newest, controversial)
- Let me adjust the weighted score of posts based on the age of the account.
- Let me configure the home page.
> Let me replace the recommender entirely with something of my own devising, called back through a webhook.
Is there any popular consumer product that allows custom recommendation based on a webhook? Opening up a core part of your product to an untrusted and probably unreliable third-party is not a good idea.
> why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on YouTube.
This is addressed by the article:
> The first is this notion that it’s somehow in our interests for the recommendations to shift people in this direction because it boosts watch time or what have you. I can say categorically that’s not the way that our recommendation systems are designed.
- Let me configure the order of posts based on voting patterns (hot, newest, controversial)
- Let me adjust the weighted score of posts based on the age of the account.
- Let me configure the home page.
> Let me replace the recommender entirely with something of my own devising, called back through a webhook.
Is there any popular consumer product that allows custom recommendation based on a webhook? Opening up a core part of your product to an untrusted and probably unreliable third-party is not a good idea.
> why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on YouTube.
This is addressed by the article:
> The first is this notion that it’s somehow in our interests for the recommendations to shift people in this direction because it boosts watch time or what have you. I can say categorically that’s not the way that our recommendation systems are designed.