Because you would always send the pages of the website you visit to a third party, that’s information noone should know!
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rambaroo@lemmy.world 11 months agoThat’s really not good. Literally all of these are European languages.
I’d rather have it connected to a better translation service than have it be offline. I don’t understand why the translator working offline is even a plus. It’s a web browser.
I assume there must not be any FOSS translation services they can use so this offline translator is just a consequence of that.
Gamey@feddit.de 11 months ago
vimdiesel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure they would be happy to accept your help in translating a new language.
synceDD@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gets 5 free stuff and bitches for not getting 50. Some people…
brianorca@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s fine for translating news articles, but maybe not for private email. Different people accept different risk levels in different situations.
gamer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s for privacy purposes. An online translator requires that all the text you’re reading be sent to a third party, which may or may not use it for nefarious purposes. E.g. maybe you translate your bank account’s web page because there’s a word you don’t know, and not Google knows how much money you have in your bank account.
If you don’t care about that kind of privacy, then there’s no reason you couldn’t use an existing online translator. Firefox has always supported that.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes sense, thanks.