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?

https://programming.dev/post/34436717

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.

I thankfully haven't encountered the translated titles thing in a long time (I think I remember noticing YT music would translate the titles of JP songs I was listening to like, 5-6 years ago???), but the AI audio dubs fucking KILL me. Especially since I use ReVanced on my phone, which means that I have to have stream spoofing on for videos to even play, but that also means I can't force the original audio, so I quite literally can't watch some videos in their original language on my phone unless I pull it up on Invidious.

Newpipe and Pipepipe seemed to have a stroke on my devices when I tried to use them (FreeTube is good about 80% of the days, but I really only use it on my laptop), so praying the browser Invidious is working is literally my only option in that case.

I am TRYING to learn a language Google, so please don't force a shitty AI dub on a video that quite literally says "Japanese Listening Practice" 🤬

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.

Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.

As a Swede, we speak English incredibly well on average and automatic translations are very obvious (they can't adapt expressions as well as human translators can, etc). It's very annoying when automatic translations are forced on or the default.

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 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???

It's so dumb, random video titles are translated into Polish and it just makes them worse

Ah nice one, thanks. I wish it worked for mobile too.

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.

trying to learn a language

Youre nit supposed to do that.

But I don't think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:

And then there's IGN, who blocks you from even accessing English articles and redirects you to their local website.