coughlanio

I use 1Password as my password manager, and add a tag to each login where I have a specific hardware key registered.

Yep, I recently got Google's Titan pair of keys, and anywhere that supports hardware keys, I was able to register both, and I'm only required to use one to login.

A surprising amount of Kickstarters are already funded, or at least, partly funded before starting their crowdfunding. I know of one case first hand that had secured X amount of funding based on the ability to secure Y amount of crowdfunding. So, very possibly that's the case here. Some investors see it as a way to prove there's at least some market for the product.

Why not use YouTube's RSS feeds and use any bog standard reader?

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC3x6qC4...

As for the comments that's likely a bigger issue to tackle, especially with how liberal Google is with captchas these days.