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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

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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo ago
  Translation thiefdoms, they are usually part of the local ledia gatekeeping infrastructure
wartywhoa23 11mo ago
Translop, what an apt term! Thanks)
wlesieutre 11mo 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 11mo 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..

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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

by breakingcups 11mo ago

sznio 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo ago
  Translation thiefdoms, they are usually part of the local ledia gatekeeping infrastructure
wartywhoa23 11mo ago
Translop, what an apt term! Thanks)
wlesieutre 11mo 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 11mo 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..