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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:43PM (#45362846)
It is enabled by default. One creator of English language content had their video misclassified as Spanish and people were getting a machine English dub on an English video. Support to fix it appears to be a nightmare.
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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by the_af on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:45PM (#45362873)
Wait, do you mean it's enabled by default but the author can disable it?

If not, I wonder why I can still watch most videos in their original language (even though I'm in a Spanish-speaking country), and I only encountered this once so far.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:54PM (#45364522)
There is supposed to be a procedure to manually remove each language dub but it was broken (at least as of last year).
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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by extraduder_ire on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:25PM (#45368627)
It's being gradually rolled out to channels. Will likely hit larger ones earlier, or following some other metric youtube is following.
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