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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by bscphil on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:30PM (#23864037)
> YT even hides them the sub feed.

I see YouTubers claim that YT does this, but personally, I've never encountered a single video on a channel that I'm subscribed to that didn't show up in my subscriptions feed. I've also never seen direct evidence, it's only YouTubers claiming that this is happening to their subscribers, as a way of explaining some downturn in the number of views. I suspect many of them are confused about the "notification" feature, which I don't know I've ever seen anyone actually use. (Also, sometimes a video can get stuck in "processing", in which case it won't show up in the feed until it's finished processing.)

Do you have some examples of this happening? I'm almost certain if you could provide screenshots, e.g. of the channel and of your subscription feed, showing the missing video, that YouTube would consider this a bug. The subscription feed is supposed to show all the new videos from channels you're subscribed to.

Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by bmn__ on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:42AM (#23869865)
> I've never encountered a single video on a channel that I'm subscribed to that didn't show up in my subscriptions feed […] Do you have some examples of this happening?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3lnEJVuGA

See comments, this was definitely happening to several subscribers.

Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by soupbowl on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:05PM (#23864335)
> I've never encountered a single video on a channel that I'm subscribed to that didn't show up in my subscriptions feed.

This is also my experience, I've even closely paid attention to the videos of YouTubers that claim this type of thing is happening and I still have always seen their videos appear in my feed.