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.
Newpipe is slowly becoming better
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.
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
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.”
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 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 😂
