MacTube 2 YouTube as a real Mac app – without Shorts and without AI slop
MacTube 2 YouTube as a real Mac app — without Shorts, without AI slop, without opening Chrome. macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · always the latest build Why MacTube 2 Watch what you chose, not what the algorithm pushes. One switch removes Shorts from your home feed, search results, sidebar and recommendations. Shorts links take you back Home instead of down the scroll hole.
- ▪MacTube 2 YouTube as a real Mac app — without Shorts, without AI slop, without opening Chrome. macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · always the latest build Why MacTube 2 Watch what you chose, not what the algorithm pushes.
- ▪One switch removes Shorts from your home feed, search results, sidebar and recommendations.
- ▪Shorts links take you back Home instead of down the scroll hole.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/depo23/MacTube2 |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:16:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T17:25:38.556Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T17:25:38.556Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | mrPhBky31sse · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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MacTube 2 YouTube as a real Mac app — without Shorts, without AI slop, without opening Chrome. macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · always the latest build Why MacTube 2 Watch what you chose, not what the algorithm pushes. Shorts off, for good. One switch removes Shorts from your home feed, search results, sidebar and recommendations. Shorts links take you back Home instead of down the scroll hole. Skip AI-generated videos. Videos YouTube labels Made with AI are stopped before they play. Channels caught posting them disappear from your feed too, so it gets cleaner the more you watch. One click to watch anyway if you want. Real Mac tabs. ⌘T opens a new tab, just like Safari. Keep a tutorial, a playlist and a talk open side by side. Links go where they should.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.