1/ Today, we filed a complaint with the 🇧🇪 Digital Services Coordinator vs. YouTube under the #DSA.

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1/ Today, we filed a complaint with the Digital Services Coordinator vs. YouTube under the #DSA.

We challenge how YouTube uses deceptive interface design to steer users towards its profiling-based recommender system.

YouTube curates & ranks content primarily through systems that monitor & analyse user behaviour.

Clicks, likes, shares, watch time & interaction patterns are used to predict & shape future behaviour, influencing what billions of users see online.

EDRi files DSA complaint against YouTube - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi has filed a complaint with the Belgian Digital Services Coordinator against YouTube under the Digital Service Act (DSA).

European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)

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2/ Under the #DSA, VLOPs must provide at least one recommender option not based on profiling.

While Youtube formally offers one, accessing is not easy. Users must navigate through multiple layers of settings, interpret technical terminology, & actively override default configurations.

️In this setting, safeguards are merely symbolic: this is why we have asked to investigate YouTube’s compliance with the DSA and to take effective enforcement action.

The complaint ️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-files-dsa-complaint-against-youtube-for-undermining-user-autonomy/