Loss in terms of money or efforts. Could be recent or ancient.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=5jDbJbCuKl4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Can we make a bot that cuts out the begging for likes and subscribes for a full minute at the start of videos?
You mean something like Sponsorblock?
It doesn’t just skip sponsors, it can skip subscription reminders, as well as a bunch of other stuff.
There actually used to be (maybe still is) a Chrome extension for this, applying what’s known as the Wadsworth Constant :-)