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Straight from the heart! Only yesterday I rented my first ever item on YT. An English movie, found with an English search query. "Based on my location" they ga
by PostPlummer 6y ago
Straight from the heart! Only yesterday I rented my first ever item on YT. An English movie, found with an English search query.
"Based on my location" they gave me a French dubbed version of it. No alternative sound track, heck not even subtitles.
I live in Switzerland, we have 4 official languages. I speak one of them: German. Not a word French. The proposed solution: go to apple and ask for your money back. Very poor experience.
Do not even get me going on the "want to use Premium for a month"? I've declined that offer at least 48 times. Did not want it then, do not want it today. Really a pity since there is a lot of cool (not sponsored or monitized) content.
- behnamoh 6y agoMan, use ad blockers!
- untog 6y agoEasier said than done if you're watching YouTube on, say, a Smart TV. Personally I'm very content with my Google Play Music subscription that also includes YouTube Premium. The music service is no different than Spotify (for me, at least) and I also get ad-free YouTube on all platforms.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoI will say that paying for YouTube premium is worth for me. I hate ads so much.
- errantspark 6y agoNo amount of paying for things beats the experience of a decent ad-blocker.
- ColanR 6y agoUblock Origin would save you the ads.
- scpedicini 6y agoNot on most mobile devices, or the native YouTube app on smart TVs.
- tootie 6y agoI assume you mean to ask Google for your money back? It's funny because I have a client right now asking for some advice on how to design a localizable website that can guess default language and I'm realizing that no one has really solved this very well.
- Razengan 6y ago> localizable website that can guess default language and I'm realizing that no one has really solved this very well. The first and most important step is to offer a very very big option up front and center for reverting to English. This is an extremely annoying thing when traveling.
- tootie 6y agoI've been trying to not assume an Anglo-centric audience, but it seems like this is a popular choice. Almost every major international site, just has English or region-specific English as the fallback.
- kortilla 6y agoSome little British or US flag in the corner works well in my euro experience. I learned to look for that pretty quickly spending time in Austria/Germany.
- CM30 6y agoOr just a menu that lets them choose their language right there on the page somewhere. If you can automatically redirect someone based on their browser language, then you can add a menu with some language names and flag icons next to them too. Either way, it must like rule 1 of UI design; even if you think you know better than your user does, let them override that choice when you get it wrong.
- afiori 6y agoPersonally it is a problem that I want to be left unsolved :) Or rather the solution I would like is rarely used, I have only found it on some Amazon sites, where you can freely choose the country-level localization (via the domain) and the language-level localization (via a menu) independently. It was an happy day when I was able to browse the German Amazon in English.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y ago> I live in Switzerland, we have 4 official languages. I speak one of them: German. What about English? Your post seems to be perfectly idiomatic (for this kind of forum) English. Edit: This is very embarrassing. I had thought English was one of the four official languages.
- new2628 6y agoI understood it just to mean that they speak only one of the four (and plus an unspecified number of other languages).