The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
Oh, yeah, I’ve also noticed some issues with captions. Do some less-used instances not have this problem?
The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
Ah, that makes sense; YouTube certainly imposes rate limits on queries.
For those who need subs and like using terminals, youtube-dl (or one of the forks) is capable of downloading videos along with subtitles
The cool kids use yt-dlp now smh
hey, now, I did mention forks
I started using yt-dlp when youtube-dl stopped being maintained (although I think it’s being maintained again now)