Title: Captions ON by default
Last modified: September 22, 2026

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# Captions ON by default

 *  [attila73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attila73/)
 * (@attila73)
 * [1 week, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captions-on-by-default/)
 * We have a problem that the captions are on by default for all our YouTube videos.
   We would like our protected videos to be played without automatic captions, but
   for a while all our YT videos (including those from the last year that didn’t
   have captions at all) are all playing with automatic captions. Please help why
   is that and can you make a checkbox or a shortcode to switch them off?
 * Thank you very much!

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 *  Thread Starter [attila73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attila73/)
 * (@attila73)
 * [6 days, 21 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captions-on-by-default/#post-19029500)
 * There is nobody else who is bothered with this behaviour? If I paste a clean 
   youtube link in the page without Protected Video it doesn’t start the captions
   automatically, and in addition the player window has a CC button, where one can
   switch captions on and off.
 *  Thread Starter [attila73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attila73/)
 * (@attila73)
 * [3 days, 17 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captions-on-by-default/#post-19031722)
 * No response -> Switched to Presto Player. Bye!

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 * Last reply from: [attila73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attila73/)
 * Last activity: [3 days, 17 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captions-on-by-default/#post-19031722)
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