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?

And good luck if you don't live in the main country of such language, I rather use english everywhere than use spain spanish.

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!

Between videos that aren't in English being in robot-voice English, and videos that aren't NSFW being impossible to watch now cause they deem it 18+…

If I've learned anything from this 18+ thing, is that, if they wanted, you'd really need to log in to watch videos. FreeTube won't play 'em, yt-dlp won't download 'em. Short of sketchy websites probably implementing an account of their own in the background, nothing else. And even sketchy websites, it'll take you a hot minute to find one that works.

As for the English bot voice, I've learned to "Open Invidious link." Until FreeTube fixes this, at least. Heard it's on the way. Though idk if this is the same issue as the post mentions

Same, the first thing i did after seeing auto translated titles and descriptions was look for a way to turn it off. I like the option but this had me second guessing why I use their service at all

why did you delete the other post? or was it a mod?

Lemmy

(programming.dev)

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 channel names are different. How can you not tell?

Oh, I removed all the section data from the URL, but I didn't notice the locale.