YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
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Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#2I could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard.
I could believe this is a side effect of something else.
I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default.
Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#3this just keeps happening over and over. And I can't find any logical reason why they are doing this. Surely you can't lose money due to supporting a colorful subtitles format? Ditch youtube. You most likely do NOT need it
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#4I could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard. I could believe this is a side effect of something else. I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default. Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?
It differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. So, just as with Crunchyroll, better to kill the complex human artistic subtitles so that people don’t get used to their boring “could be machine, could be human, who cares” slop (and, as a bonus, so that human moderators aren’t required to evaluate whether the subtitles are offensively shaped).
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
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Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#6this just keeps happening over and over. And I can't find any logical reason why they are doing this. Surely you can't lose money due to supporting a colorful subtitles format? Ditch youtube. You most likely do NOT need it
They still support multiple formats with color information
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#7Not sure on their reasoning, but subtitle files _are_ an attack vector:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-batt...
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#8Not sure on their reasoning, but subtitle files _are_ an attack vector: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-batt... https://mashable.com/article/subtitles-hackers
I mean, it’s sort of a vector. The malware itself can only be executed if you click a suspicious .lnk file. The moral here isn’t that subtitles are a “vector”, but to not indiscriminately run scripts.
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#9this just keeps happening over and over. And I can't find any logical reason why they are doing this. Surely you can't lose money due to supporting a colorful subtitles format? Ditch youtube. You most likely do NOT need it
They still support multiple formats with color information
Even still, it's not as much information and doesn't excuse deleting creators work without any warning.
Re: YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
#10I could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard. I could believe this is a side effect of something else. I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default. Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?
It differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. So, just as with Crunchyroll, better to kill the complex human artistic subtitles so that people don’t get used to their boring “could be machine, could be human, who cares” slop (and, as a bonus, so that human moderators aren’t required to evaluate whether the subtitles are offensively shaped).
It differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all.
Well, that certainly remains to be seen.