IT IS SOOOOO ANNOYING! I’M CONSTANTLY HAVING TO MANUALLY CHANGE YOUTUBE’S LANGUAGE SINCE I WATCH VIDEOS IN TWO LANGUAGES LOL WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?
The translated titles are ok-ish, I’ve seen some funny mistranslations but most of the time it’s understandable. But the auto-dub is actually unwatchable. Not only is it absolutely terrible both in terms of translation and actual watching experience, you also can’t turn it off? What the hell man…
The translated video titles are the worst. You never know the language the video will be on, and YT is always translating to some random language without any evidence you can speak it.
Traslated titles are trash, at least for Spanish. Those are usually confusing due to the wrong translation of technical terms or even common words/slang. They can’t be bothered to give you anything better than shit-tier google translated text.
Dearrow has an option to disable them and it’s an absolute godsend; though I’m not using it now for performance issues.
I hate these auto translations with a vengeance. I don’t care if its English or my native language. Most of the time, I don’t even notice which it is. Except when the audio of a channel I know suddenly is a desinterested robot voice.
As a Swede, we speak English incredibly well on average and automatic translations are very obvious (they can’t adapt expressions as well as human translators can, etc). It’s very annoying when automatic translations are forced on or the default.
I fucking hate autotranslated titles!
I only watch YouTube videos in English but my native language is different. All the fucking videos have fucking ai translated titles that don’t even make sense . And all the jokes are lost
And the automatic dubs sound horrible. People actually listen to those?
Now even ads for booking.com use the horrible ai voices. It’s a 10 seconds ad and their revenue for 2024 was 24 fucking BILLIONS. CAN YOU GO TO FIVERR TO HIRE A NATIVE SPEAKER FOR $5 AND NOT RAPE MY EARS???
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That’s what you get by allowing a US site to get a world-wide monopoly…
I’ll just leave this here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation
You and the creator of this extension are saints! Was a bit confused as to why the site was in Portuguese at first though lol
Anyways, thanks a lot!
Oh, I removed all the section data from the URL, but I didn’t notice the locale.
Usually when an unpleasant, inconvenient, non-optional ‘feature’ like this comes out, it’s at least obvious how that’d generate the culprit company more profits. But with this one, Im genuinely befuddled as to how it benefits YouTube shareholders. Anyone have a guess?
Well. There are no YouTube shareholders anymore. It’s Alphabet shareholders. But I get what you’re saying. From my experience at YouTube. I would say a 20 something year old UI designer. Was too busy planning her trip to Tahoe for the weekend. And didn’t really care about how this ended up. Because Dan was going to be at the Air BnB.
This is a literal conversation I’ve over heard at YT HQ once. No one there is really aware of the actual users of the service. They are usually sorority chicks. Pushing UI changes that the devs on the 3rd floor just follow the Jira ticket that was submitted.
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i could put up with their constant attempts to block adblocks, that was fine, felt like a fun battle (which adblockers were obviously going to win)
but i draw the line at auto translation, if i start seeing the videos i want to watch auto translated to the langauge of the country i’m in i’m going to actually flip out. and probably start using freetube again
Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.
What about title translation? If yes, does it also remove them title translations on mobile?
I’ve never seen those. Yet I only find in settings “prefer original audio track regardless of the language”.
Thank god I speak a language which gets support for this kinda stuff really late. Even though I still sometimes get translated titles and it annoys the hell out of me. Sure 19 videos on your page are in english but 1 sticks out because it’s in my language. Ok lemme click on it.
Ohhhh… It is still in english just the title was translated. Great…
I thankfully haven’t encountered the translated titles thing in a long time (I think I remember noticing YT music would translate the titles of JP songs I was listening to like, 5-6 years ago???), but the AI audio dubs fucking KILL me. Especially since I use ReVanced on my phone, which means that I have to have stream spoofing on for videos to even play, but that also means I can’t force the original audio, so I quite literally can’t watch some videos in their original language on my phone unless I pull it up on Invidious.
Newpipe and Pipepipe seemed to have a stroke on my devices when I tried to use them (FreeTube is good about 80% of the days, but I really only use it on my laptop), so praying the browser Invidious is working is literally my only option in that case.
I am TRYING to learn a language Google, so please don’t force a shitty AI dub on a video that quite literally says “Japanese Listening Practice” 🤬
Nothing should be ‘auto’ on a computer. Options are great, but everything your computer does should be a thing you are doing via the computer, not a thing the computer just does.
why did you delete the other post? or was it a mod?
it was a mod removal: https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14
they say rule 1, which is
Be civil and nice.
this look like a candidate for yepowertrippingbastards. what was that site that can show the mod that deleted the content, and sometimes the deleted content too?
Are the americans americanning again?
The vast majority of youtube viewers struggle to learn one language, let alone two.
As usual, catering to the lowest denominator makes the most money.
the point you are making is extremely valid but could you make it without using ableism please
