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Re: YouTube subscribes

From "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.internet.services.video.youtube
Subject Re: YouTube subscribes
Date 2025-08-26 19:56 +0100
Organization 255 software
Message-ID <108l003$6e3d$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2025/8/26 14:9:58, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-08-26 12:33, Andy Burns wrote:
>>>>>> I've often wondered what subscribing _does_ do; 
>>>>>
>>>>> You get told when there is a new video on that channel.
>>
>> it isn't subscribing itself that does that, it is using the notification 
>> bell that does that.  I subscribe to many channels, but get 
>> notifications from none of them, my phone would never shut-up if I 
>> allowed notify from youtube.

I'm only on computer/browser, not 'phone.>
> You can subscribe without notifications?
> 
> I'm looking at a subscribed channel. I see a droplist:
> 
>    black bell icon     All
>    white bell icon     Personalized (check)
>    crossed out bell    None
>    crossed out person  Unsubscribe

And the "white bell icon	Personalised" is the one it defaults to if you
subscribe from the unsubscribed state.>
> I see I have personalized notifications, but I forget how to see what 
> that means exactly. In the notification bell itself (top right) there is 
> a cogwheel.
> 
>    Desktop notifications  Get notifications in this browser    No
>                           even if not watching youtube
>                           (I assume this means push notifications)

I don't know what it would mean for me; presumably popups in the
browser. I have that set to off, too.

I get the impression that _these_ settings are global, i. e. not
channel-specific.

>    prefs                  Subscriptions                        Yes
"Notify me about activity from the channels that I'm subscribed to"
I have no, which presumably is why I've never got a notification of a
new upload. (Though I don't know if it would tell me about other
"activity" - I wasn't sure what other activity it might tell me about,
which is probably why I set [or left, I can't remember] it to off.)

>                           reccomended videos                   No
"Notify me of videos that I might like based on what I watch"
For me, that is on: however, I don't think I've ever had such a
_notification_. (And I'm subscribed to a lot of channels, and watch a
lot of YouTube, so would expect the algorithm to think I might like lots
of videos.)>
>         more entries.
> 
Activity on my channel (on), Activity on my comments (off), Mentions
(on), Others reusing my content (on), promotional content and offerings
(on).

I have been assuming that these settings follow the common convention of
blob to the right (which it colours blue) means on/yes, and blob to the
left (which it colours black) means off/no. However, given that the
_only_ notifications I can remember getting for some time - and plenty
of those - have been when someone likes, or posts a followup to, my
comments, I am wondering if these are the other way round? That would
certainly explain why I'm only getting activity-on-my-comments
notifications, though not why I'm _not_ getting new-upload ones.

> 
> I have very few subscribed channels, and some of them have no activity, 
> so my phone doesn't bother me much with them.
> 
> 
>>>> How do I get "told"? I certainly don't get emails.
>>
>> It's a notification in the android app, maybe also push notify from the 
>> browser client?
> 
> Ah, yes. I have disabled the later.
> 
I can't remember when I last got an email "from" YouTube. I see towards
the bottom of the above Notifications page, there's a drop-down headed
Unsubscribed emails, which if I drop it has only one entry, "Someone
leaves a comment on my video or responds to my comments on a video",
with a Resume option, presumably meaning I have "Unsubscribed" it, which
would account for my not getting emails. (Quite why it bothers with a
drop-down list for only one entry I don't know; I guess under some
circumstances there could be more than just the one entry.)

-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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