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Short version: Run the following to retrieve the RSS feed of a YouTube channel, sans Shorts (replace the URL with your desired YouTuber's channel): curl -fsSL 'https://www.youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic' | grep -Eo '<link[^>]+type="application/rss\+xml"[^>]*>' | sed -E 's/.*href="([^"]+)".*/\1/' | sed 's/channel_id=UC/playlist_id=UULF/' The result looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULF5CYeHPLer3lbEhgonvbbAA. Long version: The last few times I've used YouTube on my iPhone, I've been taken aback at how absurd the recommendations are. They've reached such a level of AI-generated nonsense that they're even more distracting in their uncanny resemblance to reality. Every time I open up the site, I dread the attention-grabbing thumbnail that will assault my eyeballs before I can tap the subscriptions icon. On desktop, I don't have this problem. Unhook hides all of this nonsense so I can use YouTube in peace. On iOS, no such luck. Fortunately, I stumbled on…

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