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.
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!”
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> Use UNSUPPORTED subtitle format instead of one of the other 10 supported ones
> Fast forward some time
> YT disables and removes the UNSUPPORTED format
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While that’s true, it clearly worked and massive channels used it. So why is YouTube’s avoiding any responsibility and trying to kill it as quickly and silently as possible? Like, I get that sometimes you’ll have to drop support for things (even things you unofficially support), but there should be a phase out period during which people can either backup and re-upload videos with those captions to preserve them. They could and should honestly provide a heads up for that or even help them out.
Now they are literally decimating people’s hard work and on top of that pissing off actual partners. Not saying it will be successful, but cutting into people’s business like that is the kind of thing you can get sued over. So it doesn’t even make sense to take that risk from what we know.
You can also use a power outlet with no grounding but don’t get surprised when your “buisness” burns down.
Except YouTube decided it’s going to light your “buisness” on fire because you aren’t using grounded outlets
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.
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
Didn’t crunchyroll recently do something similar?
Wtf is going on, what do companies have against 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.
MMW YouTube will push AI fancy subtitles.
