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this can't be real. is it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious how much companies like NordVPN pay them to inject ads into subtitles for pirated media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Nothing for putting it there, but if someone goes to the affiliate link and sign up they get a comission ofc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What sub editor do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

it's been a few months since i've had that pc booted-up, but i think this is the one:

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Subtitle-Workshop

note that i don't create or translate subs, all i really use it for is for adjusting timing of the whole file (using vlc to find the + or -), and the occasional edit or delete of an existing line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not the person you responded to and its been a while since I’ve done it, but I’m pretty sure you can just open the file with notepad (or TextEdit on Mac), scroll down to the timestamp, make the changes, and save the file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you for this!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ fuck them. "Fair is fair"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You'd think they were making the damn things themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And who pays for the servers and uptime?
You think that's cheap? lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah, if they weren't sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn't judge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.