I really hate how Youtube defaults captions to be on now. For people who don't stay signed in unless I need to do something specific, that gets really annoying.
I see it as further evidence of this ADHD society needing to have captions to actually comprehend what a video is saying. We already had data that suggests that the majority of people keep captions on while streaming, which is sad enough in my eyes.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with people enabling captions if their hearing is impaired; obviously, that's the whole point of the captions. However, if you don't have hearing issues and the video is in your native language, WHY do you keep the captions enabled?
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