I swear I read a thread here (on lemmy) recently that one of these subtitle sites was embedding ads in the subtitles. Now that takes things even further than scummier in my opinion, especially since subtitles are for availability.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean I've been a pirate for a WHILE and you generally do see ads on opensubtitles subs. Generally it's opensubtitles saying you can advertise with them, or credits for subtitles that stay on the screen for way too long, but this has been a thing forever now, I don't recall a time when this wasn't done.

I don't think I can take the moral high ground on it seeing as...well, I am a pirate lol. We out here doing our best to stay afloat, opensubtitles included.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite are the ones advertising shit for illuminati. Like yeah we all know

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

If you need to advertise your secret society, it's not a good secret society.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So frustrating when a subtitle ad pops up spoiling that a movie is ending.

Something dramatic happening on screen and then "you can advertise on opensubtitles" appears on the bottom letting you know that there is 10 seconds left and spoiling any tension or drama in the scene.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

TBH it's just simple text files, you can open any .srt with Notepad and edit it to your liking. I always remove those dumb ads at the beginning and the end.

[–] sedawk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. They now embed ads directly into the subtitles. There is a python program to strip those ads out, but doesn't work with Plex directly. It can be setup with bazarr, but that requires sonarr and or radar...