I am seriously starting to question if YT have started selling packages where you can buy subscribers to your channel…
A few weeks ago I noted that I had been subscribed to three smaller channels of generic corporate slop videos, I unsubscribed naturally.
Today I was watching a video on my phone I suddenly noticed that as I was closing the video a pop up saying that I had subscribed to the channel, I was very confused as I was already subscribed to the channel I was watching, Hidden In Sweden (btw, the last video was very interesting), and I checked my subscriptions…
I had been subscribed to a random holiday home rental company in Spain’s channel…
Are there ads that immediately subscribe you to a channel? What is going on?
I used to have a similar thing happen on Twitter and my conclusion was that it was simply a channel that I was following that got sold and repurposed for some other use.
I get what you mean, but yesterday it happened while I was using the YT app on my phone and I even got the “subscribed to channel” message.
So it was absolutely a new channel.
I am leaning toward a bad ad that forced a subscription when opened.