One thing @pluralistic doesn't mention in his enthusiastic promotion of #RSS is that every #YouTube channel also has its own RSS feed. On desktop, press Ctrl+u to view the source and then search for /feeds/ .Copy the URI into your RSS reader and voilà! No need to rely on YouTube's terrible notification system; you get notified of each new video when it's posted, and the site can't put any obstacles in your way as they love to do.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
@pluralistic Since I started using RSS to keep up to date with my YouTube subscriptions, I notice that I've become increasingly intentional and deliberate in what I watch. Youtube.com is designed to keep you browsing listlessly in order to show you more ads. RSS means I only watch what I'm actually interested in.
@Infrapink @pluralistic oh thank you! I didn't know this was possible.
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If you do need the feed URL you can get it with RSSPreview -- which also adds an RSS button so you can tell which other pages have feeds too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/
@Infrapink @pluralistic Dunno if it's anything I've done or I'm just lucky, but that never worked on me, because almost everything YT serves up outside my deliberate subscriptions is absolute shit that I immediately stop watching. They say those platforms know what you like but even after looking over my shoulder for two decades, YT has abslutely no idea about my preferences or interests.