These offer customization like colors, text styling and positioning and are used to distinguish who is speaking or for karaoke subs and are now potentially being lost forever.
> Use UNSUPPORTED subtitle format instead of one of the other 10 supported ones
> Fast forward some time
> YT disables and removes the UNSUPPORTED format
>
More like unofficially supported. The fact that they worked points to the fact that they were quite literally supported.
Unsupported typically just means they wont provide (technical) support if/when it breaks.
YT is throwing out the baby with the bathwater
Dammit, it was very useful to poison subtitle files for AI !
Write immense amounts of garbage text outside the viewport. AI sees it, viewers don’t ! I believe there’s even a way to prevent screen readers from getting confused by it… It was great.
“Why did they take that feature away? I was busy abusing it!”
you are right but to be fair fuck ai.
I wouldn’t fuck ai. You won’t know what STD you get because it’ll hallucinate every symptom you both have.
Didn’t crunchyroll recently do something similar?
Wtf is going on, what do companies have against fancy subtitles
MMW YouTube will push AI fancy subtitles.
Crunchyroll subtitles are absolute dogshit now. I am mad enough to cancel my account. Fucking sad that pirating will get me a better product than the one I was paying for.
Always did, especially so with anime
While I’m not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:
- it’s a bug
- the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
- It’s getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn’t seem to always work properly in YT’s apps
On the last point, it’s probably not for something better or standardized, It’s gonna be to push the AI captioning and dubbing.
AI for you!
Because God forbid using anything other than their own generated subs. Or to have options.
If that’s a push to their AI systems, while AI has its uses, when coincidences or fuck ups are too consistent, it may not be either anymore. And thus it feels like Google is trying to tarnish AI to the point even supporters move away from it.
I have random issues with youtube subtitles in general. I often watch foreign language videos, occasionally for learning. Except sometimes whilst they work in the video’s language, the translations don’t…until I reload the page, or quit the browser. Or on specific computers which never have issues. 🤷♂️
