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YouTube stopped sending email notifications
I logged into YouTube in my other browser to leave some "likes" on some of these videos. The main YouTube page showed a video posted recently by one of the channels I'm subscribed to. I started watching it and then realized I haven't gotten any email notifications from YouTube in a long time, to let me know of new videos posted by the people I'm subscribed to.
YouTube Will Stop Sending Email Notifications to Alert Channel Subscribers to New Content
Gah! It stands to reason that I'd be in the 0.1% of anything, yet again.
Although when I got the emails, I didn't click the links in them as that would open them in the wrong browser. And I didn't necessarily load the images in those emails. So they probably weren't even counting me in the 0.1% even though I did use the emails to let me know when there was new content available for me to watch.
And of course it didn't impact watch time, because I watch so much other junk. But now I won't be notified of the good content I specifically subscribed to??!! Gah!
And not to mention, it's been hard in the past to keep getting the emails too, because it seems that they never *did* send them by default. I had to go into the settings and select to receive emails for each channel that I was subscribed to. So why they wouldn't still keep that as an option if you *choose* it...
:: the world makes no sense ::
Gee, I wonder if there's a third-party service that would be able to check your YouTube subscriptions for you, and email you whenever something new has been posted...
Oh, and I just realized that YouTube never bothered emailing *me* to let me know about this, either as someone who posts videos on YouTube or as someone who watches them. Which of course, as YouTube doesn't CARE about those 0.1% of viewers, why would they?
YouTube Will Stop Sending Email Notifications to Alert Channel Subscribers to New Content
...as of August 13th, 2020, YouTube will no longer send out email notifications to your channel subscribers whenever you upload a new video.
According to YouTube's internal data, less than 0.1% of these emails are ever opened, while users have also complained that such notifications are an annoyance in their ever-cluttered inboxes.
"We didn't see any impact to watch time when we experimented with turning off these emails."
Gah! It stands to reason that I'd be in the 0.1% of anything, yet again.
Although when I got the emails, I didn't click the links in them as that would open them in the wrong browser. And I didn't necessarily load the images in those emails. So they probably weren't even counting me in the 0.1% even though I did use the emails to let me know when there was new content available for me to watch.
And of course it didn't impact watch time, because I watch so much other junk. But now I won't be notified of the good content I specifically subscribed to??!! Gah!
And not to mention, it's been hard in the past to keep getting the emails too, because it seems that they never *did* send them by default. I had to go into the settings and select to receive emails for each channel that I was subscribed to. So why they wouldn't still keep that as an option if you *choose* it...
:: the world makes no sense ::
Gee, I wonder if there's a third-party service that would be able to check your YouTube subscriptions for you, and email you whenever something new has been posted...
Oh, and I just realized that YouTube never bothered emailing *me* to let me know about this, either as someone who posts videos on YouTube or as someone who watches them. Which of course, as YouTube doesn't CARE about those 0.1% of viewers, why would they?
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Gah, I'm so flustered by it still.
Although they still apparently send out push notifications, but I haven't used them. And I mainly watch videos on my laptop, not my phone.