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		the_af 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube down... 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.

extraduder_ire 8 days ago | [–]

It's being gradually rolled out to channels. Will likely hit larger ones earlier, or following some other metric youtube is following.

kevin_thibedeau 8 days ago | [–]

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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