conceptinterest-graph-recs
Data donation
Notes
Data donation
One-line summary: A research method — the person requests a GDPR copy of their platform data, then chooses what to share — used when APIs are a poor window. Not a measurement of google-takeout delay, and not a Data Portability API finding.
The insight
Peer-reviewed communication-methods papers treat platform APIs, data donations, and screen tracking as three ways to collect digital traces. Donation is the academic counterpart to “export your data”: the controller must provide a copy; the participant decides what the researcher sees. Retrieved abstracts do not restate YouTube’s watchHistoryNotAccessible, measure Takeout minutes-to-days, or analyze substitute-browse policy. From 2026-08-21-academic-research-user-owned-interest-graphs-vs-platform-recs.
Evidence
- From 2026-08-21-academic-research-user-owned-interest-graphs-vs-platform-recs: Ohme et al. (2023) compare “three methods of digital trace data collection — APIs, data donations, and (screen) tracking.”
- From 2026-08-21-academic-research-user-owned-interest-graphs-vs-platform-recs: Pfiffner et al. (2023, n=833) report “higher willingness to donate YouTube data compared to Facebook, Instagram, or Google.”
- From 2026-08-21-academic-research-user-owned-interest-graphs-vs-platform-recs: Carrière et al. (2024) — “the participant requests a copy from the data controller, then chooses what to share.”
- From 2026-08-21-academic-research-user-owned-interest-graphs-vs-platform-recs: “No retrieved abstract names
watchHistoryNotAccessible, measures Takeout minutes-to-days delay, or quotes the Developer Policies substitute-browse rule.”
Contradictions / tensions
- Donation papers do not replace the official-docs findings on youtube-data-access-constraints / google-takeout. They are a methods literature, not a YouTube API reference.
Related
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