I hate them for auto translating the video titles and descriptions with no way to turn them off, I even installed an extension to restore the original titles but YT broke it again intentionally or unintentionally with their unending tweaks.
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idefix@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoThey are using automatic dubbing by default here in France! I was horrified the first time.
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It horrifies me as a German. They also get titles, descriptions and comments wrong all the time. It legitimately doesn’t work.
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This honestly doesn’t surprise me, because English proficiency in France is below that of Spain, Russia and even Italy, which says a lot.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s because the french media industry is very strong, and virtually everything is dubbed.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
After some time it “learns” you don’t want it.
But what grinds my gears instead are auto-translated video titles.
Because I am watching maybe 70-80% english content I decided the lesser evil is to just set the language to english instead.
Annoying as fuck but managable.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Google has always made it extremely clear that they don’t believe it’s possible for the human brain to know more than one language, and that anyone who claims to know more than one is a liar and a witch and has no place in their platforms.