themadprogramer

Wow, this seems new, definitely adding it to my list!

I hear someone is working on a browser extension, but it might be difficult to bring it over to mobile.

Regarding externalCC, it started off as a project for J-Pop fans by J-Pop fans and that has been the main audience it has been catering to up until this point. People just wanted somewhere to share translations, not really an audience to be concerned with malware/privacy since it mostly spread by word of mouth. I've heard the developer is planing on open-sourcing it for more "mature" development in the future, so let's see what will come of that. That being said, getting people to come over to another website instead of YouTube is, as you can imagine, not something that will happen overnight (Given that you also have to consider deaf, international audiences etc. who haven't even heard of the removal yet). It's still possible to directly upload/accept from YouTube, although it's very tedious But that probably won't last forever, I predict it will die the moment YouTube kills the old captions editor for good, which might take a few weeks seeing as the new version is kind of buggy. In the long term I hope that externalCC and some of the other projects listed on YT Captioner's Toolkit, are integrated into open-source YouTube front-ends like Invidious. Both in terms of survivability and also easier accessibility. But that requires them to start somewhere... And that's why I'm here to tell you about all these awesome projects, to bring you hope and to show that we can take matters into our own hands instead of whimpering about Google/YouTube's shortcomings to no avail.

Just spreading this info around the internet, please don't mind that this of all things is my first post on here! YouTube has hastily hidden all the menus, but it's still possible to get community captions to work, for now. Obtuse, but possible. The contributor and video uploader need to access the editor URL directly, click here for a tutorial. Again, it works, for now. A more long term solution is likely the http://youtubexternalcc.netlify.app/ project, which aims to host captions externally for free. Downside is that they don't automatically show up on YouTube, but neither do Amara's captions, requiring the uploader to add the files themselves. As it so happens, I am compiling a more thorough list of resources called the "YouTube Captioner's Toolkit" where you can find out more. Spread the word!