Neowin News Feed for: Recommendations

Here's how you can tweak your Instagram algorithm, the official way

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:40:01 +0000

Instagram announced you can now tweak your algorithm to choose what you want to see. Here's how you can do it. Read more...

Meta is finally giving you the algorithm control switch for Instagram and Threads

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:32:01 +0000

Threads and Instagram are working on their respective features that let you control your recommendation algorithm. Read more...

New feature lets you reset Instagram recommendations

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:02:01 +0000

Meta has introduced a new feature on Instagram that allows users to reset their recommendations, giving them more control over their content experience. Read more...

Ads in Windows 11 might make sense to Microsoft, but it's really bad for consumers

Usama Jawad — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:16:01 +0000

Debates about what is an advertisement versus a recommendation in Windows spark from time to time. In this piece, we discuss how unsolicited ads make sense for Microsoft but are detrimental to the UX. Read more...

Some YouTube creators can offer ad-free videos, suggestions, and quiz viewers

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:02:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Here are all the new features coming to Windows 11, including tabbed File Explorer

Usama Jawad — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:00:09 +0000

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. Read more...

Steam adds option to ignore games already played on other platforms

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:26:01 +0000

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. Read more...

YouTube's recommendation topic filter feature rolls out to all Android users

Abhay V — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:36:01 +0000

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. Read more...

YouTube altering recommendations to show less flat Earth conspiracies

Paul Hill — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:52:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Netflix recommendation sharing on Facebook overhauled

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:34:42 +0000

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. Read more...