They got rid of the Dislike button. Fine. They changed the Homepage to 2 ginormous thumbnails per row. WTF are they thinking? They doubled down and forced that change onto the Subscription page too when people started just using that instead. Now I’v noticed a LOT of videos posted from subscribed creators do not appear on the subscriptions page at all. Go to homepage? There it is plain as day. I’d complain (30second unskippable ad) about the (30second unskippable ad) annoying bombardment (30second unskippable ad) of advertising on (30second unskippable ad) the platform but (30second unskippable ad) I use Ublock.
There has to be some sort of competitor (not Twitch) that is a reasonable equivalent? I’m at my wits end here. It seems all Media Content online has become outright hostile to consumers and I want to go to war.
Go to the Google takeout manager.
Log in if asked.
Click on “All YouTube data included”, then on “Deselect all”, then select only “subscriptions” and click “OK”.
Click on “Next step” and then on “Create export”.
Click on the “Download” button after it appears.
Go back to NewPipe, tap on “Import from YouTube”, hit “import file” at the bottom of the screen and select the .zip file.
Thanks, those are the precise newpipe directions I followed a number of times. Searching the internet for a way to make it work I found that it’s the same experience many people have.
Took me a while also found it easier to just import the CSV file located inside the zip as the zip file errors out.