Then don’t do live transcoding on basic hardware. Sending subtitles is sending a text file, not some monumental task. Even a cpu version of whisper only needs

Then don’t do live transcoding on basic hardware. Sending subtitles is sending a text file, not some monumental task. Even a cpu version of whisper only needs to be run once (and can be done by the uploader). Not all devices need to do the same amount of work. Not all the work needs to happen when the screen is on and on battery power. End users also don’t want to be bombarded with ads and spied on for the privilege of being bombarded with them.