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lol I really despise it when corporations try to be "too" smart/helpful and automatically translate their shit to the local language guessed from your IP, which

lol I really despise it when corporations try to be "too" smart/helpful and automatically translate their shit to the local language guessed from your IP, which is a major pain when traveling. Google absolutely sucks ass at this: You can't set your default language without having a Google account which I refuse to sign in except on YouTube, and there's no easy way to change the language on some of their pages.

breakingcups 1y ago
Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself: The auto-translated titles and machine dubbing, for which you can only pick one default language, which all other content will be forcibly translopped into. God forbid I speak more than one language and am comfortable consuming content in its original language.
- sznio 1y ago
  In my case, I browse YouTube in English, but my Google account has both Polish and English enabled. Polish video titles get translated to English, and English video titles get translated to Polish.
- crote 1y ago
  It's insane that their don't have proper support for multilingual people. How hard is it to add a "if language is in [x,y,z], don't offer translation" check? It's made even crazier by Google being such an international company. Don't they have a huge number of Indian developers? Why has not one of them been bothered enough by this to fix it?
  - shadyKeystrokes 1y ago
    Translation thiefdoms, they are usually part of the local ledia gatekeeping infrastructure
- wartywhoa23 1y ago
  Translop, what an apt term! Thanks)
- wlesieutre 1y ago
  Even better, somebody probably got a promotion out of ruining that, because they made the amount of content "available" in other languages go up
- Razengan 1y ago
  > Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself YouTube is the epitome of "echo chambering": When you open YouTube from a hotel or Airbnb in other countries, god, you will see a flood of the most clickbaity videos from that country only, or whatever's been targeted for that IP/area watch the most, sometimes with lewd/suggestive thumbnails and just horrible You know what's really dumb though? How they're an ads company and try to spy so much shit about you, but if you watch just 1-2 Russian videos then you'll get Russian ads for a while..
dijit 1y ago
Yes, I hate this. It's more annoying because browsers literally tell you what language they want. Developers seem to have a canned response to this; largely that they don't trust users to have set their operating system language to the correct one... somehow https://dijit.svbtle.com/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-language-they-speak https://dijit.svbtle.com/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-la...
branko_d 1y ago
Did you try No Country Redirect? http://www.google.com/ncr http://www.google.com/ncr
- Razengan 1y ago
  It doesn't work for some/many things, like account sign-in screens, and I think the last time I tried, Google Files/Drive either
torstenvl 1y ago
Anyone who determines language solely from IP is per se incompetent and needs to be completely blacklisted from the industry. The Accept-Language header exists for a reason.
- Razengan 1y ago
  Yeah! Why can't it just check the OPERATING SYSTEM LANGUAGE???? It's literally there!! My OS is in English, my browser is in English, don't fkn show me everything in Klingon just because I happen to be a prisoner on their ship!
ramchip 1y ago
Sometimes it's impossible even with an account. I can't search in English on my phone in Japan. If I go into options and change the language, the moment I click OK, it switches everything right back to Japanese. I know multiple colleagues who've had the same issue for years.
cachius 1y ago
> set your default language without Google account You can: https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 Conveniently this URL supports th hl param https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results?hl=en#hlsp https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results... It explicitly sets the language, so in case you switched to a language you don't understand, visit this English link: https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1&hl=en https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1&hl=en Ofc you can also delete cookies. Interestingly not all available languages change the UI, e.g. 'Èdè Yorùbá (jorubera)' does nothing. The dropdown has 144 options, but the official interface language list only 74: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results_appendices?hl=en#interfaceLanguages https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results...

breakingcups 1y ago

Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself: The auto-translated titles and machine dubbing, for which you can only pick one default language, which all other content will be forcibly translopped into. God forbid I speak more than one language and am comfortable consuming content in its original language.

sznio 1y ago
In my case, I browse YouTube in English, but my Google account has both Polish and English enabled. Polish video titles get translated to English, and English video titles get translated to Polish.
crote 1y ago
It's insane that their don't have proper support for multilingual people. How hard is it to add a "if language is in [x,y,z], don't offer translation" check? It's made even crazier by Google being such an international company. Don't they have a huge number of Indian developers? Why has not one of them been bothered enough by this to fix it?
- shadyKeystrokes 1y ago
  Translation thiefdoms, they are usually part of the local ledia gatekeeping infrastructure
wartywhoa23 1y ago
Translop, what an apt term! Thanks)
wlesieutre 1y ago
Even better, somebody probably got a promotion out of ruining that, because they made the amount of content "available" in other languages go up
Razengan 1y ago
> Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself YouTube is the epitome of "echo chambering": When you open YouTube from a hotel or Airbnb in other countries, god, you will see a flood of the most clickbaity videos from that country only, or whatever's been targeted for that IP/area watch the most, sometimes with lewd/suggestive thumbnails and just horrible You know what's really dumb though? How they're an ads company and try to spy so much shit about you, but if you watch just 1-2 Russian videos then you'll get Russian ads for a while..

dijit 1y ago

Yes, I hate this. It's more annoying because browsers literally tell you what language they want. Developers seem to have a canned response to this; largely that they don't trust users to have set their operating system language to the correct one... somehow https://dijit.svbtle.com/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-language-they-speak https://dijit.svbtle.com/trusting-the-user-they-know-what-la...

branko_d 1y ago

Did you try No Country Redirect? http://www.google.com/ncr http://www.google.com/ncr

Razengan 1y ago
It doesn't work for some/many things, like account sign-in screens, and I think the last time I tried, Google Files/Drive either

torstenvl 1y ago

Anyone who determines language solely from IP is per se incompetent and needs to be completely blacklisted from the industry. The Accept-Language header exists for a reason.

Razengan 1y ago
Yeah! Why can't it just check the OPERATING SYSTEM LANGUAGE???? It's literally there!! My OS is in English, my browser is in English, don't fkn show me everything in Klingon just because I happen to be a prisoner on their ship!

ramchip 1y ago

Sometimes it's impossible even with an account. I can't search in English on my phone in Japan. If I go into options and change the language, the moment I click OK, it switches everything right back to Japanese. I know multiple colleagues who've had the same issue for years.

cachius 1y ago

> set your default language without Google account You can: https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 Conveniently this URL supports th hl param https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results?hl=en#hlsp https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results... It explicitly sets the language, so in case you switched to a language you don't understand, visit this English link: https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1&hl=en https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1&hl=en Ofc you can also delete cookies. Interestingly not all available languages change the UI, e.g. 'Èdè Yorùbá (jorubera)' does nothing. The dropdown has 144 options, but the official interface language list only 74: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results_appendices?hl=en#interfaceLanguages https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results...