Firefox "Following" Tab shows Trending Topics from unfollowed subs

[u/alrun]

Recently Reddit introduced "For You" and "Following" Tabs.

While the rules for "For You" are unclear to me - the "Following" tab might, should, Could mean that only posts from Subreddits I am following are shown.

As the helper below states:

The Following feed shows only content from communities and users you follow, without personalized recommendations.

At the time of creating this post this is false.

About 1 in ten topics in the "Following" section are personalized posts from unfollowed subreddits.

Please Do follow your own rules and keep recommendations out of the following tab.

[u/CorrectScale]

That shouldn't be happening - can you share a screenshot of what your feed looks like?

Is it coming from a specific subreddit?

[u/alrun → u/CorrectScale]

I should have taken a screenshot :( - one topic was something trending on /r/Finances I believe.

Right now I cannot reproduce it - somehow the selector "For You" / "Following" on the top is gone for me now (reloaded with cache cleared).

Next Time I will take a screenshot / copy the URL of the topics on question.

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Found one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nachrichten/comments/1x5f8fe/mcdonalds_streicht_burgerklassiker_nach_37_jahren/ - I did not join /r/Nachrichten/ screensho You can see the "Join" on the top right indicating that this article is from sub I did not subscribe to.

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3 more examples Screenshot + URL

-- Now For You / Following is back on the top.

[u/CorrectScale → u/alrun]

Got it, thank you for reporting! If it pops up again feel free to drop a comment here.

[u/jgoja]

If you don't follow enough subreddits, it may show that. How many have you joined

[u/IKIR115]

This new twist is mentioned in the pinned weekly recap post in r/help

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/GAKy4xqOGZ