Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!

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• Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love how nobody actually read their statement here.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since Twitter~>X the internet enshitification has accelerated so much…

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This isn’t enshittification, they deprecated the api a long time ago, now they have a shiny new one that’s free. You need to switch over or pay up. API changing isn’t something unique in programming.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except the fact that they cut the amount of free calls over half from 20 to 5

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• Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait… “Ad-Free Subtitles”? I have never even used or heard of this service, but that just feels like an “insult to injury” or “annoy you into paying” abuse? Am I wrong?

  Please tell me that this is not some auto-subtitling service that is going to cause ads to be inserted into the subtitles for other ads or something? Like, how do ads in subtitles even work?

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  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They add one ad at the beginning like “visit example.com” inside the subtitle file

    But luckily there aren’t many companies that want to be associated with piracy* so in most cases it’s blank a generic “advertise here contact mail@example.com”

    I remember only a campaign that lasted over a year, a service that promotes legal streaming services, filmamo.it

    * note: why I said “associated with piracy”: those files are going to be used with pirated video files and in most cases are pirated too as they’ve been extracted from a DVD or a streaming service without a license from the copyright holders. Once I saw a guide “how to use external subs with Netflix” for the rare edge cases where the viewer is watching a content via VPN and his sub language is missing, but those are very rare. Not to mention that for MPAA there’s no difference between just torrenting a movie or paying a subscription to Netflix in another country via VPN: for them is all piracy and they want to stop both.

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    • Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fucking MPAA. Quite possibly the most corrupt pile of dickheads to ever assemble. They blatantly ignored their own raring guidelines for decades until they decided they got tired of being called out on it and changed them to be so vague that they would he allowed to justify any rating, then started accepting “donations” from production companies to get the ratings they wanted.

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  • Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not auto-subtitling, I checked. But that is a different thing they made (without the ad inserting part). It’s at ai.opensubtitles.com

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• wieli99@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also got this and was like wtf are you trying to hype up here?!

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• verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1…

  what about vlc player?

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  • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Plex?

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yarr, this be objectionable, but inconsequential.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless you’re deaf or hard of hearing.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In which case the ADA provides extensive coverage that demands reasonable accommodations. Hence why reddit backtracked and allowed a few apps free API access (eg RedReader, which is very clunky but still works).

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, it is a black Friday treat, so…

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• kalistia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  media0.giphy.com/media/aKZij6fdoGtOw/giphy.gif?ci…

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• JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s $15/year. Not exactly breaking the bank.

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• looseanus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  deek.chat

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