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So basically Pew is using garbage adware that pops up an intrusive popup that screws up automated language detection, Chrome is way too overeager to auto transl
by turnsout 2y ago
So basically Pew is using garbage adware that pops up an intrusive popup that screws up automated language detection, Chrome is way too overeager to auto translate, and Google Translate is starting to go to seed now that everyone uses LLMs.
- avalys 2y agoThe article says the popup which caused this issue was used to display survey instructions, not ads.
- shadowgovt 2y agoThey're probably using an ad network to emit spot-surveys where the ads would show up, although details unclear from the article. (... honestly, how else will they gather survey data? It's not like they can harass people in the malls Americans don't go to anymore).
- shadowgovt 2y agoGoogle Translate turning a non-word in a source language into an unrelated word in the target language is an old, known misbehavior. I don't think LLMs changed anything there.