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Re:YouTube Regrets by true_religion on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:24AM (#21267930)
Cigarette companies are reviled for having information that smoking kills, and not only supresssing it but going as far as to claim smoking has health benefits.

That goes way beyond personal responsibility. It was a wide spread fraud.

YouTube isn’t really doing that. They simply recommend things that you may like and succeed or fail at it. When people are uncomfortable with the recommendations it’s a failure, not a conspiracy against the public.

Re:YouTube Regrets by majewsky on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:13AM (#21268463)
> They simply recommend things that you may like

That's the misconception here. Youtube is recommending things that make you watch more Youtube. Their customer base is advertisers, not viewers.