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My recommendations have always been awful, so I avoid them and just use my subscriber list instead.

But they did make a UI change in the android app that I didn't notice until very recently that I'm sure made me miss quite a few videos I would have wanted to watch. The list now has options, and doesn't default to showing videos from your subscribed channels in chronological order. Instead, it's some weirdo order that Google has decided is what you really want to watch, and that omits things. You have to tap on the "videos" tab to get the chronological list now.

It took too long for me to notice this, and it certainly meant I didn't watch videos I would otherwise have watched.



It has been really frustrating to witness over the past decade.

All of the services with news feeds inevitably change from timelines sorted newest to oldest, to engagement algorithms full of random garbage.


LPT: you can add any youtube channel to an RSS reader and they'll find the "hidden" RSS feed

Now you get every video without even having to open youtube.com




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