• Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    This is one of the most annoying things in the recent internet! I guess the most convenient option would be to just ask me for the languages I understand, and only auto translate everything else.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      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.

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      3 days ago

      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

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      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?