This is plain wrong. Other comments have already given many arguments against this decision, but here is another one: language learners. I've used Youtube to le

This is plain wrong. Other comments have already given many arguments against this decision, but here is another one: language learners. I've used Youtube to learn German and Japanese. Those subtitles help me figure out what native speakers are saying, specially for videos which are not "clear" enough for the auto-generated subtitles to be good.