this can't be real. is it?

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

The exact moment OpenSubtitles becomes ClosedCaption
- They are transitioning to their .com domain, whose only bonus, other than the wait time and ads, is serving files directly rather than zipped. They could offer this feature on the original .org site with no downsides (the traffic won't increase because 99% of devices will support gzip on the application layer anyway) but I wonder why they don't.

OpenSubtitles is hot garbage, a viable alternative needs to exist. Pray for Subscene
- Ironically, this might be an area where machine learning could be beneficial.
  
  I've been watching a few projects that are attempting to live translate videos. We are very close
- I typically grab the better quality rips and they almost always come with subtitles. Three hats ones are older or more obscure movies/shows that don't have many options to choose from.
- Is addi7ed also good?
  
  Yeah but they are focused on tv shows afaik
- Is it easy to get a copy of their dataset?
  
  there's a comment from a few months ago with a torrent, the date inside is july 2022 so will be missing anything newer: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/5089994

I once saw a movie where the subtitles before the movie were like "join my wow guild". Loved it
- Did you join it tho?
  
  Never played it :(
- It's Bokutox, isn't he?

Are you watching this on a Nintendo DS or something?
- It looks like they really wanted to get both frames in one picture, so they did the obvious thing…load one frame on your phone, another frame on your partners, and then take your 2007 flip phone out of the drawer and use that to take a picture of both of them.
  
  Side note: why is it SO HARD to put two images together into one image file on a smartphone? There are multiple apps that want $1.99/mo for the privilege of making a collage, Instagram Layout has been broken for years now, and the first party solutions (particularly Google Photos) are overengineered in some big ways (like not allowing you to make a collage without some kind of border) and underengineered in others (like not allowing you to choose an image from a search, make a different search, and then choose another image). And as far as I can tell the only way to actually put one image on top of another is to use Double Exposure on Snapseed.
  We've had this problem solved on Windows for literally my entire life, and I'm pushing 40. So why can't we figure out basic, no frills raster editing on mobile? I'm not even talking about layers (though, yes please). I'm talking about pretty much anything other than a filter.
  
  Or two Nintendo DS.

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"
- Slow down there, Satan. I kid you not, I had someone approach me to help develop technology like this a long time ago. The idea was to break into video streams at the ISP and insert advertising on the fly w/o prior approval.
  My reaction, after realizing this person wanted to turn the internet into an ad-encrusted wasteland*, was: "What happens when that video stream is something live with a LOT of money behind it, like the Superbowl?" The legal and professional ramifications didn't even clock with this guy. It was squarely in the "not my problem" category.
  (* More-so than it is now. I'm not saying we're getting off light, but this guy was a-okay with making everything look like the hallway bulletin board in a college dorm.)
  
  That's the kind of guy who invents the idea of selling a subscription to seat heating in your own car.
  
  Satan wouldnt do that. Jesus is the one who wants all the advertising
- I love buying stuff for free!
  
  The catch is that you're signing up for a recurring subscription, and Audible plays the hard sell when you try to cancel your subscription.
  (If you're determined though, this can be great for you. I think I've gotten a total of 5 or 6 audiobooks for free from Audible thanks to their free first month and "please don't leave" unsubscribe flow and "please come back" emails.)
  
  Even Elon Musk biographys? But yeah, I worded that poorly.
- That's been going on since Blockbuster was a growth company. Like 20 years ago, for the TV (or maybe DVD, I forget which) release of Get Shorty, they 'shopped in an Oldsmobile Sillouette minivan as a product placement, replacing the original vehicle.
  "Its the Cadillac of minivans."
  edit: Actually, the Olds was the one in the theatrical release, which got replaced with another make/model for TV. All the releases I can find so far include the Sillouette.
- Only a question of time. Ads are already digitally inserted into movies and shows.
  
  I was at a Cracker Barrel last night and among the random shit on their walls was an old checker board. The border of the board, taking the majority of the space available, was covered in ads. I guess it never changes.

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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
- 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.
- 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?
- 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!

Scummy.

Samwise was a fellow who was always there with a ready smile and a network security recommendation
- "I can't tunnel the ring in TCP mister Frodo, but I can tunnel you."
  
  Product placement for NordVPN and Naughty America in a single line.

“One does not simply walk into Mordor…” Boromir turns to the camera and continues, “…unlike this video’s sponsor - nordvpn! With the code ‘flame of the west’ you can simply walk your way into an 85% discount off the price of a full years subscription! Thanks nordvpn, and now back to the council of Elrond”
- Bullshit
  The ad read is never that short
  
  *sequence shortened

This is pirate on pirate violence. Blasphemy.

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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 think they only put them in when there's a long period with no captions. Usually at the beginning or end of a video, but I've had them during a silent/dialogue free scene in the middle of a movie before.
- I think this is at the very end of LOTR 1 if I remember correctly. Like they cut off two of Sam's lines

Mullvad>Nord
Because:
Monero>Snitchcoin
- What is snitchcoin?
  
  Bitcoin
- Care to explain the comparisons?
  
  Bitcoin is a Snitchcoin. Everything is does everywhere it goes and everyone trading in its entire history is tracked and publicated %100 all the way down to the IP address.
  Closest thing you can get away with that is to swap Monero for the Bitcoin on Bisq.
  Monero is anonymous. %100. Regular upgrade to the shuffling of the anonymity is by design and happens between twice a year and every other year.
  Mullvad accept Monero directly. No third party snitch tracker doing the acceptance for them. They give the same discount for the payment method.
  
  I assume because Bitcoin has a public ledger and Monero doesn't. Its more than that, but that's the gist. Monero literally exists to offer additional privacy over Bitcoin.
  No idea about those VPNs in particular, but I assume its a similar privacy issue, such as keeping logs...

I've had good luck lately with SubScene, I've only downloaded a few files though, so not a huge sample set
- Never saw any ads with Subscene files. But I don't think Subscene provide api for apps.
  
  yea, I've just been dragging and dropping files into VLC

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

Can bazarr fix this crap? I got something similar recently.
- Stop using bad trackers and it won't happen
  
  I use opensubtitles, and I'd love to but it's not particularly easy to just get into good trackers.
  
  Where do I find good trackers? Even paid ones?
- I have a script that I found somewhere and have made personal tweaks to: https://pastebin.com/RJf9kajk Put it in a file called sub-clean.sh and check the instructions in the script on how to add it to bazarr
  I have not noticed any issues with it, but there can of course be false positives (like someone saying the word "Facebook" in a series/movie), so your miles may wary. (this is why i leave the .trash.tmp file personally, so that i can restore the removed lines if needed)
  and as always, this script is provided as is, but it might help someone out there
- I don't think so, but you can use an open subtitles premium account to get rid of ads. it's not that expensive.
  
  I have premium to deal with the backlog. Maybe it downloaded before I switched.

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...
- It's likely they got a set for the wrong version. Like this is the extended film but they got subs for the non-extended version.