Degoogling cost me my YouTube feed, so I made my own

× Part of degoogling my life meant dropping the YouTube app. The only thing I actually used it for was the subscription feed: what the 10 to 15 channels I follow have posted, newest first. No comments, no recommendations, no Shorts. So I rebuilt that one screen and nothing else, on the same edge layer as the rest of this site. Just the feed, nothing else It’s one chronological list: the newest videos across every channel I follow, merged and sorted newest first. You add channels from the page by URL or @handle and they stick around. Everything YouTube stacks on top of the subscription feed is something I ignore or actively avoid, so building only the screen I use was less work than configuring the app to leave me alone. How it works without an API key Every channel publishes a public RSS feed at feeds/videos.xml with its recent uploads as Atom XML, and the Worker reads that directly, parsed with fast-xml-parser. No quota, no Google project, no token to rotate. People add channels by…