

Until users turn them back on
AFAIK there’s no setting to outright disable subs. Maybe there is one somewhere, or you could strip them from media, but that’s terrible because subs in is always the correct choice. What can help is running the extract subtitles plugin though that won’t help for format.
Isn’t that message more about the shutdown? Rfk sucks for sure but the shutdown is not really his thing. Destruction of standards is his thing