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.
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.
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.
Apparently so
According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021–who knows where things stand now):
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.
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?
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.
Jesus Christ fuck them. “Fair is fair”?
You’d think they were making the damn things themselves.
Yeah, if they weren’t sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn’t judge.
And who pays for the servers and uptime?
You think that’s cheap? lmao
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.