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Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by Alifatisk »

What is it with Youtube and adding things no one asked for? I especially dislike when they make it default, so I have to figure out how to disable new features. My browser language is EN, my preferred language in YT settings is EN, I live in a European country, yet, videos get translated into Arabic? What the hell Youtube. Why can't I just visit your platform, look up videos I am interested in and watch it.

The old Youtube was way nicer, it felt snappy, easy to interact with and didn't have all that bloat we have today. I also miss when the ads where a popup at the bottom of the video instead of having to watch double ad segment every 5 minute.

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Post by makeitdouble »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #56
phantomathkg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i18n and l10n are something that I have seen a company done right. It is easy developer to assume: If your IP is coming from country X, you must want the content to be served in language X. No, there are tourist from country Z, long term resident who prefer language A and people from country X want to learn language B. - If your browser Accept-Language say X,Y, then you must want all the content to be served in X. No…

No need to do these assumptions, youtube accounts are google accounts and google already supports setting multiple languages that you speak/read.

The very fact that Google allows multiple language setting yet still fearlessly screw you at every turn is the biggest sign IMHO that they just hate multi-linguals.

I see it as the other side of Hanlon's razor: we know there's competent people there, we should fully attribute this to malice.

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Post by [deleted] »

qwertox wrote: post #176

Autodubbing is probably the worst feature Google has ever implemented. It's OK if they want to offer it, but at least let me disable it for specific languages. And for those languages which I don't understand, let me choose a default autodubbing language. Because I assume that auto-generated translations from French to English will be far better than those from French to German or Spanish. Also, the voices they use s…

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

danielspace23 wrote: post #155

I honestly can't wrap my head around what some users do just to have the "stock" experience. In order to get a vaguely usable stock YouTube, you need to install at least UBlock, SponsorBlock, No Translation, and arguably DeArrow as well. And this only works for browsers, many people will cope with their mobile YouTube experience being hell on earth. Why do all this when you can get an alternative cross-platform clien…

this is funny.

in "i am legend", the last man standing became the "unwanted alien" because everyone else had transformed into something else.

so the abnormal is the new normal. enshittification at its peak

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Post by josefx »

rightbyte wrote: post #187
qwertox wrote: post #176

Autodubbing is probably the worst feature Google has ever implemented. It's OK if they want to offer it, but at least let me disable it for specific languages. And for those languages which I don't understand, let me choose a default autodubbing language. Because I assume that auto-generated translations from French to English will be far better than those from French to German or Spanish. Also, the voices they use s…

It is terrible and took me a while to realize what was happening. I though some videos were generated spam. Reddit does something similar now. It auto translates posts and they show up in Google in my native tongue. Really annoying since when I search in that language I specifically don't want English sites.

For reddit things get even worse: not all commenters realize that the original post has been translated, so you get a flood of comments from people commenting in their native language. Getting modern day tower of babel vibes from that.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

i am so glad firefox addon is being discussed. looks to me normally browser extension posts are all chrome only for some reason and when i nag them about firefox version, they dont bother

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by shmeeed »

numpad0 wrote: post #24
ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

Because displaced honorifics alone is too much. Translated audio railroads is match was a draw. worse.

That's the perfect example! I honestly still can't tell what "match was draw" is supposed to say, but that's a really good match for the actual experience.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by Mordisquitos »

dgellow wrote: post #129
lajosbacs wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding to my previous comment, in Switzerland, people speak very specific Swiss German, yet the videos are autodubbed to 'hoch' (standard) German. It's a bit of an exaggeration, but it is as if a person is Lisbon would get their videos dubbed to Spanish.

I wouldn't fault youtube on that specific point. Swiss german isn't really recognized as a distinct language, and it is pretty fragmented by regions/cantons. What is more complicated is more the fact that we have 4 official languages :)

Their failure to differentiate Swiss German isn't the problem as of itself. Rather, it is a clear example of why they should stop being opinionated about the language that their users want.

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Post by spinlock_ »

saubeidl wrote: post #210
rightbyte wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is terrible and took me a while to realize what was happening. I though some videos were generated spam. Reddit does something similar now. It auto translates posts and they show up in Google in my native tongue. Really annoying since when I search in that language I specifically don't want English sites.

I live in the Netherlands and speak German in addition to English. My Dutch is ... not that great. Thanks to the geniuses at Reddit, I now frequently find posts on /r/de or similar German subreddits translated from my native language into one I'm worse at!

I noticed this "feature" after wondering why everyone was using "sie" instead of "du" while searching for reviews on reddit for a new graphics card I wanted to buy. This "shoving AI down your throat" is not just annoying, but also insulting and the accelerated enshittification of the web makes me sad. Thinking about "the good old days" also puts me in a state of nostalgia.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by carlosjobim »

danielspace23 wrote: post #155

I honestly can't wrap my head around what some users do just to have the "stock" experience. In order to get a vaguely usable stock YouTube, you need to install at least UBlock, SponsorBlock, No Translation, and arguably DeArrow as well. And this only works for browsers, many people will cope with their mobile YouTube experience being hell on earth. Why do all this when you can get an alternative cross-platform clien…

> In order to get a vaguely usable stock YouTube, you need to install at least UBlock, SponsorBlock, No Translation, and arguably DeArrow as well.

UBlock: Solved by using YouTube Premium

SponsorBlock: Solved by not watching low-quality channels with sponsors. Also YouTube has started rolling out their own version of SponsorBlock to skip these segments.

No Translation: Yeah, this is a pain in stock YouTube

DeArrow: Why would I want clickbait thumbnails and titles fixed? Those are perfect indicators of a low quality video to not click.

> Same goes for Windows

Sure does. People who want a nice experience get a Mac, which is somewhat equivalent to paying for YouTube Premium.

> GrayJay

Can't install it on a Roku or on Apple TV. YouTube Premium is still the best option for TV watching.

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