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Apparently so
According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021--who knows where things stand now):
Also, from a different admin
so a scenario like in the screenshot isn't supposed to happen. I guess if you really wanted to see if it happens you could grab all the English subs via the API and just do a quick grep or what-have-you
I'm curious how much companies like NordVPN pay them to inject ads into subtitles for pirated media.
Nothing for putting it there, but if someone goes to the affiliate link and sign up they get a comission ofc.
Jesus Christ fuck them. "Fair is fair"?
You'd think they were making the damn things themselves.
Yeah, if they weren't sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn't judge.
And who pays for the servers and uptime?
You think that's cheap? lmao
i've had ads inside of subs downloaded via browser. whenever i see them, i load 'em up in my sub editor and remove them. i usually have to adjust timing anyway as my sources are rarely the same.
What sub editor do you use?
it's been a few months since i've had that pc booted-up, but i think this is the one:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Subtitle-Workshop
note that i don't create or translate subs, all i really use it for is for adjusting timing of the whole file (using vlc to find the + or -), and the occasional edit or delete of an existing line.
Not the person you responded to and its been a while since I’ve done it, but I’m pretty sure you can just open the file with notepad (or TextEdit on Mac), scroll down to the timestamp, make the changes, and save the file.
All the ones I've seen have been in the credits. Putting it in the middle of a movie is kinda shitty, but guarantees the ads are at least seen.
Thank you for this!