r/beta • u/Infohiker • Aug 11 '23

[Feedback]What is with the closed captioning?

I am seeing closed captioning on a lot of the reddit videos now - its poorly done and distracting. How can it be turned off?

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u/Absay Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

uBlock Origin filter:

https://v.redd.it/*/*.vtt

There's no solution for the mobile app that I'm aware of.

edit: Credit to u/howdoyousayahyesshow, there's another workaround: https://old.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/15nokpq/no_way_to_turn_off_closed_captions_on_videos/jvnd65v/

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u/Infohiker Aug 11 '23

forgive my ignorance, but how do I use this?

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u/Absay Aug 11 '23

This will only work if you browse reddit on desktop and use uBlock Origin, an ad-blocker add-on (available for free for several browsers).

Once installed, you need to copy the URL I provided above, and add it to the filters in the uBlock Origin config.

This short gif illustrates the process better, it's pretty straightforward: https://imgur.com/a/vtG3EJL

Also, sorry if all this sounds really dumbed-down, as I'm not sure your level of tech savviness.

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u/AnimalKing Aug 11 '23

Its strange to see a video with captions have closed captions over it.

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u/Infohiker Aug 11 '23

Really? Did they have to close caption a DOG?

https://v.redd.it/f8l6kvm8zhhb1

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u/Pinky135 Aug 11 '23

AAAAHHHHHH!!

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u/Support_Defiant Aug 11 '23

How do I turn it on

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u/hutre Aug 11 '23

really, I would love to have a closed caption system since reddit is really bad on acessability settings

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u/blanksix Aug 12 '23

It's unusably bad for some videos. I hope that this is a beta thing and not a "hey we're done" thing, because with no settings and terrible sounds-to-speech they've got going... you get this over the entire video.

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u/chiefrebelangel_ Aug 11 '23

Yeah what is this and how do I turn it off? It's not even accurate at all

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u/Green_Smarties Aug 12 '23

Seriously turn this shit off. I already had enough of that on Tik Tok I don't need it here, it makes it so difficult understanding words when the wrong word is shoved in your face with subtitles. "It's better than nothing though-" NO IT ISN'T it actively makes listening HARDER.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

dafuq I thought it was hard coded into the video