• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    ha, i love how their reasoning tried to not point out the obvious: money

    upgrade to vip for a better user experience! (cuz we made the other one shitty on purpose cuz money)

    im not faulting them for charging a price for a service, just dont blow smoke up my ass for why youre doin it.

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      I’m actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn’t write the damn subtitles.

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        …make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn’t write the damn subtitles.

        Ah the reddit formula

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          And ancestry dot com. That one still chaps my ass. My mom spent so much time in there adding in her work, and they just fucking locked it one day behind a paywall. Fuck these sites that just take the users hard work and then try and profit off it without announcing that from the get go.

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        This will just create new competition for them. I have been watching anime for several years and never once had to go through opensubtitles. Most releases now have the subtitles integrated so what is the value they bring to the whole thing?

        Edit: I just realized I’m replying the one an only db0, you are the best, cheers!

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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          Anime is a different culture. Most non-anime stuff doesn’t have them embedded (especially the old stuff) and it’s still useful for finding subtitles for other languages

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          I use it primarily because the embedded subs are often in vubsub which fucking sucks and can’t be played probably on some devices, they also don’t scale probably.