so, i was looking for subtitles for the highly popular “the killing tv show” using the latest official kodi opensubtitles add on (complete with working username and psw), to my surprise none were found, not even in English, while i know for a fact that subs for the killing are all over the internet.
I tried a manual search on opensubs and sure enough i found the right subs in my native language dutch.
but downloading was a real pain in the ass although i do have an account there for years, i needed to click the “I’m not a robot” button and immediately got redirected to an advertisement page in a new tab.
switching back to the “I’m not a robot” page I needed to click again to confirm I was not a robot and got the captcha, clicking the captcha got me another redirect to an advertisement page in a new tab. all in all i think i needed to go through at least five redirects to get one sub to download.
the guys at opensubs are really making a mess of their website, which makes me wonder are these still the same guys that provided us with excellent subs for many years now, or has there been a hostile take over by some advertisement company who try to monetize the site, and is it time to say goodby to opensubtitles.org.
just my thoughts on the soap like story of pestering and annoying the users that is developing on the site lately.