What angers me is that big tech is constantly trying to relieve its users from the burden of learning English. I think by limiting exposure to the spoken and wr

What angers me is that big tech is constantly trying to relieve its users from the burden of learning English. I think by limiting exposure to the spoken and written English and making webpages instantly machine-translatable (translation from English to Russian is usually garbage, but many people still actively use it), shoving local news and ads to those who does not want to see them (Youtube, can you please treat me as an American if when select US in settings, god damn it), it has done more harm than good. The Internet has the cool effect forgetting my IRL identity. I want to be in the communities and identifying with skills and beliefs rather than my nationality. I've replaced google with ddg and youtube with invidious/piped/newpipe because I am tired of them constantly adjusting to my locale. Nowadays zoomers like my younger brother with all this like machine translation snake oil doesn't even care about learning English, my English was better at his age. He is perfectly content with Russian-language content and translated webpages. It's sad because there are so much possibilities for learning foreign languages today and he is missing the chance to do it at young age.