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Not sure if you guys are having the same issues I am having. I made a post but not sure if anyone is seeing this.
Apparently YouTube is blocking some people, myself including, from seeing the comment section, turning subtitles on (wow... discrimination much? I can't even watch a single video with subtitles on, unless I download the video with the subtitles.vtt file) and oftentimes, YT tells me I'm offline, even though I'm not.
Realized this when I opened the same video in incognito mode and not signed in and bam! I can see the comment section just fine, turn subtitles on and no "You're Offline" nagging message...
So just wanted to FYI you guys on this if you're seeing the same issue I'm going through. I'm seeing some people are having the same issues online so not sure what YT has planned for everyone.
>inb4 "Why use YT? Fuck YT!!!
Yes I'd ditch YT in a heartbeat but unfortunately because I'm deaf, YT is the only video hosting site that has subtitles for me to watch. Bitchute, Rumble, Vimeo and many others don't, unless the subtitles are baked in the video (like how you see people putting subtitles in Tik Tok videos).
WOW you are a boss for finding the truth other's don't hear with their supposedly healthy ears.
Here is a way around it fellow pede:
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9350862?hl=en
Thanks for this and I'm aware of this. However there's some issues with that, like for example, when Jen Psaki was asked a question I have no idea what it was then she said, "No" and moved on to the next reporter.
I used Live Captions for that (which I had to view on my phone) and the question wasn't even clear, it was something to do with a Dr. Houxan? I believe it meant to say Dr. Fauci but anyways, the question wasn't even said in full and then I got the "No" and that was the end of it.
While it's good, it's not close to being reliable yet unfortunately.
Again, thank you for this!
Also to add, I was on Discord in that TD.W channel and I met someone there. They were also deaf and they told me about installing Android stacks on Linux since I'm running Linux and from there, I can use LiveCaptions to watch anything from Twatter, Vimeo etc. Then Discord banned that channel and I lost everything, including the instructions on what I'm supposed to install and all so. Dummy me didn't screenshot the convo. I tried looking for it but it was very specific that I had to install, which would have enabled LiveCaptions.
When there's some downtime for me, I'll research more into this so I don't have to use my phone.
So it's a little complicated to get it on linux and I would need to know what flavor you use...
BUT if your Linux supports Chrome, try this:
https://youtu.be/KDP8a5s8yaU
Looks like it's built in
I'm using it, works pretty good!
Yeah man! It works! Thanks so much!!!
Wow didn't know Chrome has that feature already. To be honest I've been behind on everything Google related. Used to be a fan of Google until I've seen all of the shit Google have done so I quickly lost interest.
I'm on Fedora, a fork of Red Hat, and yes it does support Chrome (I'm on Brave) but I don't really want to install Chrome.
But for this reason alone, I may just go ahead and install but won't even sign in at all.
Wow man, thank you so much for going the extra mile for me! Truly appreciate it and I'll install Chrome soon, test it out and report.
I'm going to install Linux to figure this out