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I could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard.

I could believe this is a side effect of something else.

I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default.

Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?

this just keeps happening over and over. And I can't find any logical reason why they are doing this. Surely you can't lose money due to supporting a colorful subtitles format? Ditch youtube. You most likely do NOT need it
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Subtitles are parsed by their LLMs for the pointless summaries placed right below the video and for all the other boring, dumb stuff YT does with AI.

See: https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8 (Poisoning AI with ".ass" Subtitles)

> Sure, it's not officially supported or even documented

Conspiracy, or P3 bug?