I did 4 years ago

Yep exactly that. My car back then didn’t have Android Auto and this was the only way to skip tracks while keeping my eyes on the road.

Edit: looks like they brought it back later: https://www.xda-developers.com/spotify-car-mode-testing/

These fuckers disabled car mode in the android app to make you buy one of those and now they’re killing it. I used car mode in my car and the moment it stopped working was when I cancelled my subscription.

Threes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vo.threes.exclaim&hl=en_US

You must build a boat: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightyeightgames.ymbab&hl=en_US

I thought that they only show unicode chars if they are used in one of the installed languages of the browser and if not they show the punycode instead 🤔

I don’t know if it makes you feel better but Tom Scott had a similar experience: https://youtu.be/X6NJkWbM1xk

Something like next.js?

They buy keys with stolen credit card credentials. Owner of the card blocks the payment, devs have no money and in addition have to pay for the chargeback.