Not getting new YouTube video notifications? Do this!

16 March 2021 | How to, Video | 1 comment

Not getting YT new video notifications?You know the drill: Like, Subscribe, Click the Notification Bell.

These days, it’s just not enough. I’ve received a ton of messages saying people thought I had stopped making vids!

It’s the usual seesaw: we’re all supposed to do BLAH, so then we do it, and then it no longer matters since everyone is doing it! Since everyone has liked, subscribed, and signed up for notifications for all kinds of channels, YouTube doesn’t actually send many notifications any more.

Well, I’m sure they do, but not for my channel according to my subscribers. There’s also the fact that over 43 YEARS of video is uploaded to YT every day – so you can imagine the sheer volume of notifications that must zoom around every second.

What to do?

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How to turn off those annoying notification popups in your browser

11 September 2018 | Computers, Video | 0 comments

Will you allow this site to send notifications?

NO! And stop asking me, dangit!

For ages now, I have put up with these silly popups. Then, one day very recently, I asked myself why.

Why was I putting up with them?!

In the absence of a good answer, I figured out how to turn them off. I’m guessing that if I never bothered to figure it out, you might not have, either.

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