These offer customization like colors, text styling and positioning and are used to distinguish who is speaking or for karaoke subs and are now potentially being lost forever.

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    22 hours ago

    On the last point, it’s probably not for something better or standardized, It’s gonna be to push the AI captioning and dubbing.

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      19 hours ago

      I’m sure auto-generated captions will work great for channels like Primitive Technology where there’s no actual talking and the subtitles are describing what he’s doing…

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      20 hours ago

      What have auto-generated/AI caption contents to do with the general format captions???

      YT has auto-generated captions now for years, so why would they remove an unsupported, internal format because of that?

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        To encourage people to use the auto-generated ones and normalizing it.

        I mean, I don’t see any other reason for them to remove a previously working format otherwise.