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I just use the youtube app and let it spam me with notifications when new videos are posted. With iOS 12 grouped notifications they are all piled up into one stack and I can flip through the notifications list and decide if there's any I want to watch or not.
 
I just use the youtube app and let it spam me with notifications when new videos are posted. With iOS 12 grouped notifications they are all piled up into one stack and I can flip through the notifications list and decide if there's any I want to watch or not.

That is what I use to do.
 
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