[sneakernets]

In a just world, this would be illegal.

On the bright side, dozens of browser extensions and scripts will have to be created to solve yet another needless problem created by Google.

[bottled_poe]

It’s not great, but that’s what happens when a service is driven by profits. This capability seems better suited to an organisation like Wikimedia

[cwhiz]

It’s community driven, AKA unpaid volunteers. How is this hurting the YouTube bottom line?

[Leherenn]

There's still a maintenance and opportunity cost involved for YouTube.

[cwhiz]

That maintenance will still exist. Creators can still add captions, and those captions can still be fake and full of racism or hate speech.

[jacobwilliamroy]

Youtube turns a profit?

Does it? Why won't anyone answer?

[kube-system]

The person you are responding to did not claim they made a profit, but instead, that they are motivated by it.

[scott31]

No, in a just world this would be legal.