this can't be real. is it?

It's true, one does not simply log into Mordor.

The exact moment OpenSubtitles becomes ClosedCaption

OpenSubtitles is hot garbage, a viable alternative needs to exist. Pray for Subscene

Are you watching this on a Nintendo DS or something?

I once saw a movie where the subtitles before the movie were like "join my wow guild". Loved it

I'm telling you, there will be a streaming service that will deepfake ads into finished movies. Darth Vader will turn at the at the camera and say "No, I am your father... and you should buy the Elon Musk biography on audible dot com for free"

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Leslie I typed your symptoms into this box and it says you might have network connectivity issues?

Apparently so

According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021--who knows where things stand now):

If you use the OpenSubtitles website manually, you will have advertisements on the web site, NOT inside the subtitles.

If you use some API-software to download subtitles (Plex, Kodi, BSPlayer or whatever), you are not using the web site, so you do NOT have these web advertisements. To compensate this, ads are being added on-the-fly to the subtitles itself.

Also, from a different admin

add few words from my side - it is good you are talking about ads. They not generating a lot of revenue, but on other side we have more VIP subscriptions because of it :) We have in ads something like "Become VIP member and Remove all ads..."

Also, the ads in subtitles are always inserted on "empty" space. It is never in middle of movie. What Roozel wrote - "I think placing those ads at the beginning and end is somewhat OK but not in the middle or at random points in the film" - should not happen, if yes, send me the subtitle.

If the subtitle is from tv series, there are dialogues from beginning usually. System is finding "quiet" place where ads would fit, and yes, this can be after 3 minutes of dialogue...

This is important to know, I hope now it is more clear about subtitle ads - why we are doing this, there is possibility to remove them and how system works.

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

Scummy.

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I occasionally see those types of ads in subs downloaded through the Plex UI, but usually it's in an intro or at the end. Haven't seen them in the middle of a dialogue yet.

I've had good luck lately with SubScene, I've only downloaded a few files though, so not a huge sample set

There are a few scripts available on GitHub to remove these ads automagically

Can bazarr fix this crap? I got something similar recently.

Some of them try and sneak an ad at the start or end. It's rare though.

Most stuff now is mkv which has a good chance of including the subtitles straight from the Blu-ray or streaming service.

I tend to wait for at least a digital or physical release before downloading so I don't get a load of blurry crap with an ad for an Asian gambling site splattered across the middle of it.

I've seen stuff like that in subtitles during the opening or ending credits a few times. Never when the movie was still playing tho...

This scene is only in the extended edition

it's real

I check my srt files for that kind of thing and just remove it. But i don't download as much material as many people, perhaps.