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by samnwa 2096 days ago
They will still have captions, just not crowdsourced. The auto captions are better and better these days.
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The auto caption doesn't even detect the right language in many cases, doesn't have all languages, and is often comically bad. Maybe it's good for English but don't trust it for other languages.
On top if that, for multi lingual audio it is precisely useless, while multilingual audio is the norm in many countries or regions, as foreign sources are used as is rather than dubbed.
Its also frequently pretty bad for english