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date: 2025-09-25 21:03
description: Modding YouTube on iOS (Without Jailbreaking)
tags: iOS, Reverse-Engineering, Mobile-Security
draft: false
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# Shorts Begone (BSidesLV Proving Ground Talk)

I used to waste a lot of time getting one-shot by short-form content, especially on YouTube Shorts. For personal use, I ended up creating a Userscript for the browser to remove Shorts on my Mac, and later a tweak for the YouTube app on iOS.

I hadn’t considered turning this into a talk until a friend at BoulderSec suggested it might be interesting to share.

I should have posted this the same week as BSides and DefCon, but alas! I forgot. It wasn’t until he-who-shall-not-be-named-because-I-don’t-want-to shared Facebook’s latest addition to society, an AI-generated short-form content feed, that I remembered I had never written it up.

Maybe one of these days I’ll put down my thoughts on the cancerous nature of short-form content and how absurd it is that some of the smartest engineers on the planet spend their time optimizing retention rates for this slop.

## Video Recording

I gave this talk on Tuesday, August 5th, 2025.


[Link to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/8dY-QxHj17E?si=LzgCFx6i_kDZqF_t&t=15138) (Starts around 4:12:18)

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## Presentation

[Link to iCloud](https://www.icloud.com/keynote/01etdLsJbFbZ3cVqtUndRK0Iw)


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