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.

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.

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.

My 5 year old uses it, because he doesn't speak English yet, but thats about it.

What about title translation? If yes, does it also remove them title translations on mobile?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've never seen those. Yet I only find in settings "prefer original audio track regardless of the language".