RSS offers the ability to follow your favourite channels without having to be logged in to Google.

Note: you don't actually need to scour through the page's HTML code. Just paste the channel ID (it's a long alphanumeric string in the URL when looking at the channel's landing page) into the end of this URL:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

Here's some example links to the RSS feed of some popular Youtube channels:

• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA - Veritasium
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCEIwxahdLz7bap-VDs9h35A - Steve Mould
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCtESv1e7ntJaLJYKIO1FoYw - Periodic Videos

More links

• someone wrote a webapp for that (not that I think it's necessary...). Via reddit