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YouTube’s “new subscriber” email hasn’t changed substantially in 10+ years (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The first photo is a picture from 2013, the second is one from 2020, and the third is one I got today (2024).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Other google things that haven’t changed in several eons include:

Basically anything to do with reporting anything
The email google sends you when you report an ad (from about 2013-2015, it looks like)
Anything to do with reporting malicious web pages (that stuff hasn’t changed since 2007, you can check it out at https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ for the main page and https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/ for the Firefox/IE toolbar they haven’t had in years if you want)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that if you want to sit through their Copyright violation series, they still use Happy Tree Friends videos they commissioned. At least I saw some show that about two years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yep. And I know that from experience.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish youtubes LAYOUT wouldn't considerably change.

I just got the new layout, where comments are on the right, and suggested videos are this big ugly massive blocks that fit 2 per screen, and you need to scroll to see more.

The whole thing is ass, and I watch less youtube because I don't want to be bothered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

http://github.com/ftde0/yt2009 try this

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What else do you want from that email? You got a new subscriber. There's their name. Why change the layout just for the sake of change? Surely there are people having rules or automations tied to them, why brake them? Just for funsies?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why change for the sake of change? Because marketing analytics says they need to be the face of new-new. Why risk breaking automation? Because that's a you-problem. Google does not care about you, the user. They want you, the ad target. Things break all the time for meaningless changes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But that's my point. They didn't change. In decades. Did your even read the OP?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's why it's mildlyinteresting. The general trend is change for the sake of change. This one didn't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They took out the "report spam" button. Presumably that's because Google's whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, I noticed that as well. Google has diversified to another industry though recently: AI spam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What was even the purpose of that button? Surely if you get spam, you don't report that to the spammer, you use the mechanism provided by your email service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It was to report a bug in their email system involving unwanted emails (for instance if they continued sending you email after you unsubscribed from it).