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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.

Usama Jawad · Nov 13, 2022 · Hot! with 50 comments

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.

Alap Naik Desai · Sep 8, 2022 with 5 comments

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.

Usama Jawad · Apr 5, 2022 · Hot! with 18 comments

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.

Hamza Jawad · Aug 14, 2019 · Hot! with 4 comments

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.

Abhay V · Jul 10, 2019 with 2 comments

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.

Paul Hill · Jan 25, 2019 · Hot! with 71 comments

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.

Shreyas Gandhe · Sep 3, 2014 with 7 comments