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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" 🤬
trying to learn a language
Youre nit supposed to do that.
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Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.
But I don't think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:
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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.
And then there's IGN, who blocks you from even accessing English articles and redirects you to their local website.
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I vividly hate these features. I use this service to help me with other languages, now they try to translate everything to me as if I'm a toddler. It makes things very hard to enjoy. Besides the ao voice sucks. Good thing i use newpipe now, and i can choose which audio track to play.
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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?
I think it is marketing for Google AI and - as most things AI these days - a space reservation to prevent any competitor to come with a browser plugin that would add this feature without using Google. AI has to pee on everything to mark its masters territory.
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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...
Traslated titles are trash, at least for Spanish. Those are usually confusing due to the wrong translation of technical terms or even common words/slang. They can't be bothered to give you anything better than shit-tier google translated text.
Dearrow has an option to disable them and it's an absolute godsend; though I'm not using it now for performance issues.
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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???
My 5 year old uses it, because he doesn't speak English yet, but thats about it.
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Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.
What about title translation? If yes, does it also remove them title translations on mobile?
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The vast majority of youtube viewers struggle to learn one language, let alone two.
As usual, catering to the lowest denominator makes the most money.
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It's so dumb, random video titles are translated into Polish and it just makes them worse
I am Polish, but I have language on Google services set to English, so I get random Polish YouTubers' titles auto-translated to English. It's so fucking dumb.
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And then there's IGN, who blocks you from even accessing English articles and redirects you to their local website.
I currently live in Canada, so I don't experience that. But if I look up a recipe and it is on foodnetwork.com I immediately get a modal popup saying "Hello Canada! Were you looking for Food Network Canada?" asking me if I wanted to go to foodnetwork.ca. If I choose that option, it doesn't take me to the recipe on the Canadian site, it just takes me to the homepage. Utterly useless.
But, that's not because of a language thing. My guess is that it's a rights thing. The US and Canadian brands are probably owned by different entities, and there's an agreement to try to redirect all traffic hitting .com to the .ca site. I don't know if that's the case for IGN, but it could be.
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Nothing should be 'auto' on a computer. Options are great, but everything your computer does should be a thing you are doing via the computer, not a thing the computer just does.
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What about title translation? If yes, does it also remove them title translations on mobile?
I've never seen those. Yet I only find in settings "prefer original audio track regardless of the language".
