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Mac Disk Cleanup Subscriptions Overpriced for Developer Junk Removal

Developers on macOS pay $40+/year for disk cleaner subscriptions (CleanMyMac) to remove Xcode DerivedData and node_modules, despite only needing targeted junk removal. Existing tools are bloated and subscription-gated for what is fundamentally a simple scan-and-delete task.

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