The most convenient option would be to just not do it without an explicit opt-in.

You know how most browsers offer to do it.

Titles are also getting translated (badly), and there's no way to turn it off.

Big tech always caters to the lowest common denominator

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

And before changing language you have to accept cookies and ToS. In that language. And language selection doesn't use flags, but it's written. And the list of languages is translated into "local" language.

I'm sure google is already working on GenAI to "fix" that for you.

I hate the future.

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...

Google keeps changing my country just as I get ready to move to another country. I haven't had currency in correct local units in almost a decade.

And, of course, there's no way to change this - it's done automatically, and always at the worst possible time.

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.....

the point you are making is extremely valid but could you make it without using ableism please

Not even that. I’m logged in. I watch a lot of YouTube in English and my mother tongue. YouTube knows this. YouTube also knows I turn off subtitles/translation when they auto turn them on. Why the fuck can’t they just see what I’m doing and serve me shit untranslated in the two languages they definitely know I speak? They can’t tell me they don’t have that data. They’re fucking YouTube/Google

i wonder why they don’t just do it like they do subtitles, letting you change the audio track (between original and a few translated ones)

i know they can (or could?) do this for videos with manual translations, why not the automatic ones as well?

FUCK THIS IS THE WORST

MY DEVICE IS SET TO SPANISH. THERE IS NO WORLD WHERE I WANT TO LISTEN TO A SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEO IN ENGLISH WITH A SHITTY AI VOICE

Like I'm cool with the option. I'm even cool with it turning on by default according to your account settings.

BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK CAN IT NOT BE TURNED OFF????

The first time it happened I assumed I could just go to the audio track settings because some creators put in multiple tracks with different languages. BUT IT'S NOT THERE.

The most logical option would be to stop fucking auto translations.

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.

That's what you get by allowing a US site to get a world-wide monopoly....

I'll just leave this here:

YouTube No Translation – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download YouTube No Translation for Firefox. Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language on YouTube.

(addons.mozilla.org)

Kurzgesagt has a German and a English channel thanks to youtube I never know which one it is before checking the vid

Speaking only one language has nothing to do with this, there have always been subtitles.

YouTube does this so that one way or another they can say that more people use AI translations, and that shows investors there's value in AI and Google gets more investments.

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.

I have the device in Spanish but set the app to English cause the majority of content I consume is in English so that way it doesn’t auto-translates audio and titles into Spanish.

However now is the other way around, the few Spanish creators I follow are auto translated into English.

Is it too difficult to set a list of languages I understand and don’t translate the ones in the list?