This is such a silly idea. One thing that many tech companies seem to forget nowadays: software needs to be predictable. If I subscribe to a channel, I expect the system to notify me about new uploads. If it doesn’t, people will assume that it doesn’t work. This is the reason why I’ve cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription: Youtube thinking it knows better than me.
I’d rather have notifications for channels that don’t upload very often (thus I don’t interact much with them) because when they do upload, I’m likely to miss it.
Yeah, I don’t need notifications about the guy I watch every day uploading his daily video. I know it’s gonna be there unless he mentions it won’t be. But the dude that uploads once every 6 months with a video essay about whatever rabbit hole he went down for the last 6 months? I want those ones for sure, and that’s exactly what’s gonna get toned down with these notifications
Well according to the article, it’ll lessen the notifications of the channels you don’t engage with, as I understand it’s the notifications you often dismiss that will suffer. So if you click on those rarely-uploading ones every time, you should be safe.
Ah, so they’d be competing with my phone’s already aggressive need to protect me from notifications it deems unwanted. Be that as it may, I don’t use the feature anyway.
So glad Google is deliberately ignoring my requests because it thinks it knows what I want better than I do.
Although it won’t matter to me, I have notifications disabled entirely because there’s literally never an urgent YouTube video.
But this is just the type of mentality that absolutely drivers me bonkers. My car is also constantly turning the wipers and HVAC on automatically, even after I’ve manually turned them off.
It’s only a matter of time before Google borks the fine grained notification system in Android in the quest to serve you more
adsinformation to enhance your life.Apps get one chance with me. As soon as I get an unsolicited notification begging me to interact with them, that’s it, 100 percent silenced.
Don’t you hate it when you get push notifications for channels you subscribe to…
No. In fact, I hate that I never get push notifications about new uploads ever. Not to subscriptions or for things I have set to notify me. Shit even on the desktop site, I only ever end up having it show me new notifications after I’ve already found the new video “in the wild.”
You literally made up that quote - it doesn’t exist in the article.
This is about channels the algorithm detects you’re no longer interested in. You’re always free to open the “Subscribed” feed for a chronological list of new videos from all the channels you’ve subscribed to.
It’s in the text body part of the post…
Ah, I see. Well the point still stands.
To comment on the way the algorithm works:
So, I like Sam O’Nella. It’s not that I am not interested in the channel, the channel literally does not post for months at a time. Most of the channels I set up to notify me of new uploads are like this, hence why I’d like to be notified of new uploads. It should probably take shit like that into account.
Do you use the official YouTube app? Because I think those notifications only actually apply to that thing.
I mean, it’s installed, I’m logged in, and notifications are enabled. I don’t actually watch anything with it tho; I watch on the browser where I have an adblocker.
They literally paraphrased the first paragraph of the article.
And they are complaining because they don’t get notifications at all, ever. Most likely for the same (or similar) reason I don’t. I don’t use their stupid app. I also never allow push notifications from any browser anywhere ever.
tip: mute the trolls, don’t feed them
Meanwhile the stupid ads every time in incredibly loud voice “Did you know that this crypto bro can wank your wallet off in a jiffy?”. And this is why I use adblock. Sso I don’t have to watch and listen to removed too loud ads.
The ads are louder than the damn video I’m there to watch. I feel like this just started because I don’t remember having this problem a few months ago.
That’s what I thought this new change was going to be. Fuck me for thinking YouTube would do something that would hurt advertisers and benefit the actual audience.
Ads being louder than the video is a descendant from TV programming. Commercials are always blaringly louder than the show
Who in their right mind enables notifications for new videos? There can be countless subscriptions. Better to simply check the ones in the app.
I might watch videos in Youtube, but I keep my subscriptions on Piped because it doesn’t shit algo stuff down my throat constantly. And I can enable deArrow to get rid of the clickbait thumbnails.
The only good thing YouTube could do is just to die entirely.
This reads like a comment an LLM bot would make after being trained on a Stallman fangirl forum
Or a comment that someone who isn’t into capitalistic monopolies and mass surveillance and control by fascists wrote.
youtube is serving some great content for free. I’ve learned a lot from videos served on yt. Yes, there is also googol amount of shit on it but If it died today, it would be like a library that burned.
Who can serve all that for free?
newpipe, by the way. i don’t see adds
Who can serve all that for free
Peertube.
Wait, is this YouTube?
I was trying to figure out what the heck they were talking about when they referred to push notifications. And then I realized that this was in reference to the YouTube app which I have never actually used (other than to cast YouTube videos to my TV. But I always disable the thing immediately after using it for that purpose.) So I have never gotten notifications from YouTube about anything, literally ever. LoL 😂
Newpipe is slowly becoming better
I watch it throughvTubular anyway. I don’t get notifications.
