[satvikpendem]

> the video itself is very likely to be low quality

This is incorrect, lots of educational channels use clickbait because otherwise they simply won't be as successful and would not be able to sustain themselves. Veritasium does a video on exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

[jxramos]

3:01 they had to decrease the importance of subscribers

That explains a lot of the experience recently, I was thinking about my old subscriptions and why they haven't made a poke in a while.

I wonder can I make my browser redirect youtube.com to actually open https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions ?

[spdif899]

I use this extension to automatically redirect to subscriptions, on top of a host of other tweaks that clean up the site and make it more consistent.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhancer-for-youtu...

[plewd]

It's a really annoying direction for Youtube to have gone in.

What they _don't_ want you to do is just watch a few channels that you subscribe to and leave the website, so they force all this other stuff you didn't ask for in hopes that you stay (which works, hence why they keep doing it).

[jxramos]

found a SO post on the subject here https://superuser.com/questions/351771/can-i-get-my-browser-..., apparently firefox has an extension to support this workflow.

Looks like a straightforward browser extension implementation too for a content script to inject this meta tag for select urls

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/html/how-to-redirect-a-web-p...

[MaxMatti]

How about setting the latter as a bookmark so when you begin to type youtube.com it directs you there instead of to the homepage?

Or like me: I learned to always click the subscriptions button when I'm on the start page or done watching a video. Had quite a few moments where I saw somebody complain about the home page and my first thought was "did they remove the subscriptions page?"