Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!
Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription
"Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I'm so excited! Let's celebrate with them!" - nobody
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It's also $12 a year ($15 normally).
It's a small price to pay to ensure everything on your Plex server has subtitles. Subtitling stuff and hosting it isn't free.
Ok but (and correct me if I’m wrong) but aren’t the subtitles crowd sourced? So they are taking user content and then charging for it.
They host and serve the data which cost a lot of money, they are not charging for it they are asking for patronage for those who want to. vip doesn't get you much apart from the feeling of participating (I'm vip). It's not different from lemmy, instance hoster ask for patronage to cover the costs, even though the data is produced by users.
Exactly. I'm all for hating on subscriptions, but this is more than a fair price. Just eat at home instead of buying out for one day a year and it pays for it lol