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Youtube has stated they are going to turn off community captions and are planning on replacing them with a paid model. There are sooo many reasons this would be a Bad idea. Disability, being Deaf/Hoh, foreign language speakers/watchers to name a few. Plus youtube tends to have fairly good captions. A lot of youtubers are very niche and with have specific vocab that a lot of people, including captioners may not know. I use captions on youtube, netflix, hulu, most places that offer it. Most things have errors but YouTube tends to have less due to community members being able to fix it. 

Here is a link to a post talking more about it with the announcement. Link

And here is a petition to sign. Any other tips to get googles attention is welcome.