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Shorts is really half baked. Almost all content i consume on Youtube is in english, but shorts surprisingly ignores that and show content native to my country (
by bismuthcrystal 4y ago
Shorts is really half baked. Almost all content i consume on Youtube is in english, but shorts surprisingly ignores that and show content native to my country (most of the time irrelevant). It boggles my mind how YouTube can screw up something as basic as that.
- eitland 4y agoFor years several large web properties have been pushing machine translated content. Sometimes they push their own, other times they prefer others badly machine translated content over the original. IIRC the worst I saw in impact was 3 or so years ago when I found pages of Microsoft documentation so badly translated I couldn't make sense of it and with no way I could see to request the original.
- wdutch 4y agoTangentially related but when I have lived in countries where English isn't the first language I'm amazed how many big companies ignore the language set in my web requests (English) and serves me content in the county's native language. Google for example and they really hide the button to chsngethe language. I suppose they assume a lot of people have devices incorrectly configured to English but its very frustrating for a tech literate person who travels a lot.
- weberer 4y agoGoogle really sucks with this. It used to be a lot worse a couple years ago when you had to navigate the dumb GDPR thing before you could see the language selector. Believe it or not, its the main thing that pushed me to DuckDuckGo. Anyway, a nice trick is to append ?hl=en to the query string of any Google site and it will force it to be in English.
- glandium 4y agoOn the opposite end of the spectrum, I live in Japan, and Youtube has shown me ads for very local stuff in some remote parts of the US.