• Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My wife is deaf, and I take this VERY fucking personally. This is predatory to an already (unfortunately) overlooked demographic of movie lovers, I will absolutely rally against this bullshit.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      I’m not deaf but I fucking love subtitles.

      There’s a lot of mumbly actors out there.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Accessibility features are already scarce and paywalling them seems to be a trend that’s going on, like how reddit closed it’s API so blind users couldn’t even use it anymore. The /r/blind subreddit needed non-blind mods because their native app doesn’t support accessibility.

    • Salix@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Why do you take this personally? Just use opensubtitles.com instead of their old opensubtitles.org?

      They are only changing the old .org API, because they are moving on to their new website and REST API that they’ve been working on for a while. The new REST API is still free for 5-10 subtitle downloads a day.

      Or you can download directly on the website.