Meta has introduced a new feature on Instagram that allows users to reset their recommendations, giving them more control over their content experience.
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YouTube is offering a way to offer videos that do not have ads, recommendations, and external links. Content without distractions can help viewers focus, but only select creators will qualify.
Microsoft has confirmed a bunch of capabilities that are coming soon to Windows 11. These include a refreshed File Explorer experience with tabs, touch-optimized Snap Layouts, and more.
Users can now ignore games that they've already played on other platforms, without having to fear not being recommended similar games. This feature has been introduced in the latest client update.
As part of improvements to the recommendation features, YouTube is rolling out the topic filter feature to all Android users. It lets users filter topics that are suggested based on viewing history.
YouTube is to begin work on filtering out videos from recommendations that promote wild conspiracy theories. Some theory examples YouTube gave were miracle cures, and flat Earth theories.
Netflix has changed its Facebook-based recommendation sharing feature and limited it to friends, in order to increase the usage of the feature by their users and reduce spam-like activity.
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