One that I’m aware of is “tskr” in Japanese. It’s a slang term that derives from たすかる (tasukaru). The meaning depends on the context and it can mean something like either “you saved me” or “thanks for helping me”.

It seems like I can’t even use it anyways, lol. I’m using Linux Mint and the software required to build it is outdated.

Ring The Bells - Eurobeat Union

For some reason the only real version I could find on YouTube is the first song in Zenki’s Christmas Touhou Eurobeat Mix and it’s kind of ironic because it’s the only song in that mix that is actually Christmas related.

I agree with that and some of the artists I listen to actually do use platforms where you can purchase their music directly but unfortunately buying the music directly just really isn’t viable for me. Platforms that use ads for monetization are really the only way that’s viable but the artists I listen to only use Spotify, or if they do use other platforms, they just use them for demos and other promotional stuff.

You know what, this makes me feel a lot better about using an ad-blocker when using their site. Although, I would prefer if the artists I listen to didn’t exclusively use Spotify for some reason.

I haven’t checked it out in a while but the problem I had with the subscriptions feed was that a lot of videos don’t show up there. Sometimes it would take weeks for a new upload to actually show up in the feed, while some channels just never appeared there. IIRC, YouTube stated that this was at least partially intentional.

I checked some channels and I didn’t see any videos that were missing but I don’t really have the patients to check every channel I’m subbed to. Although, I’m subbed to over 150 channels on YouTube but the feed didn’t seem to have a lot of videos posted in the past week.

Regardless of whether they fixed it or not, assuming YouTube still offers them, the RSS feeds were always reliable for me.

There’s also PixelCanvas, which has a much bigger area than r/place.

Going this hard to fight ad blockers isn’t going to work like YouTube thinks it will. The only thing it’s going to do is force people to find ways to bypass it or just start using a YouTube alternative. If YouTube is serious about wanting people to use ad blockers less, they should have conducted some form of a survey to find out why people use ad blockers on YouTube and then make changes to either find some sort of a middle ground with ad block users or try to incentives users to turn off their ad blocker.

Obviously, they wouldn’t do that because it would require that they listen to their users and everyone knows how much they like to listen to their users before making any kind of decision.

I’m surprised they are just now releasing a browser for PC. They had one for IOS and Android for years, with the only thing available for desktop users was a browser extension.