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by TheGallopedHigh 2137 days ago
You can usually read the CC autogenerated by YouTube
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But that takes as much time as watching the talking head.
You might be missing that it is possible to download the subtitle using tools like youtubedl
It is, from the documentation: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/#subtitle-options

youtube-dl --sub-lang LANG --write-auto-sub --skip-download URI

I didn't know that... however that's like paying for a VPN and two Netflix accounts to be able to get all Netflix content.

I'd rather just ignore them if they don't want my business.