The way some websites just guess your language via IP geolocation infuriates me.
God, so fucking annoying.
I am from Eastern EU, recently moved to Germany, but traveling often to the Nordics for work. All my devices are set to English, but these LoCaLiZeD websites don’t seem to fucking mind, and I get web pages in some forsaken local language I don’t understand.
If all the fucking tech in the world would just stop gathering all my data to try to guess what I want, and just do exactly what I tell them do, I would be so happy.
I don’t mind them using that to guess, but the #1 thing a website should do when you first start using it is to allow you to select a language, and then to remember that language.
It’s extremely irritating when they use GeoIP to guess your language and then require you to know the guessed language to know where to find the settings and how to change the settings back to English, or whatever other language you prefer.
As an aside, this is how I know that Google and Facebook are lying about having a “mind control ray” that knows you so well that they show you extremely targeted ads that you will always click on. Bitch, if you can’t even figure out the languages I understand, you know nothing about me.
And then there’s IGN, who blocks you from even accessing English articles and redirects you to their local website.
I currently live in Canada, so I don’t experience that. But if I look up a recipe and it is on foodnetwork.com I immediately get a modal popup saying “Hello Canada! Were you looking for Food Network Canada?” asking me if I wanted to go to foodnetwork.ca. If I choose that option, it doesn’t take me to the recipe on the Canadian site, it just takes me to the homepage. Utterly useless.
But, that’s not because of a language thing. My guess is that it’s a rights thing. The US and Canadian brands are probably owned by different entities, and there’s an agreement to try to redirect all traffic hitting .com to the .ca site. I don’t know if that’s the case for IGN, but it could be.
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???
My 5 year old uses it, because he doesn’t speak English yet, but thats about it.
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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.
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.
That’s why I like it when creators add text in the thumbnail so I know the original language even tho the title is translated. This shouldn’t be necessary but alas it is
I’m sure google is already working on GenAI to “fix” that for you.
I hate the future.
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.
I think it is marketing for Google AI and - as most things AI these days - a space reservation to prevent any competitor to come with a browser plugin that would add this feature without using Google. AI has to pee on everything to mark its masters territory.
I vividly hate these features. I use this service to help me with other languages, now they try to translate everything to me as if I’m a toddler. It makes things very hard to enjoy. Besides the ao voice sucks. Good thing i use newpipe now, and i can choose which audio track to play.
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 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
the point you are making is extremely valid but could you make it without using ableism please
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.
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?
