I regularly consume content in two languages, my partner 3, and many of my friends are in the same boat. Please either allow me to just blacklist languages to not translate automatically or always keep content in the original language but allow changing after engaging with it. Its insane that this requires an extension for a company with as much resources as google.
The translations of video titles are absolutely atrocious and rarely mean anything near the intent of the original title.
If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?
Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently.
Tell me again how I‘m wrong.
Imagine how they spent big money developing a slogan for their brand or product and then AI comes around with a near literal translation that makes no sense whatsoever and that is what people hear.
That is the only positive side, otherwise it is what you wrote. A real pain.
If you understand more than one language, you'll get half of the videos sloppily translated for no reason. There is no way to tell YouTube not to do this for specific languages.
It is beyond annoying.
A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form.
It‘s even the other way around!
A better solution would have been to just not ship this disaster of a "feature" in the first place.
I wouldn't want my browser to automatically translate every page I go to (without my consent!) either, and that would've been a much easier job!
It was a video in French over accents, so the automatic English translation kind of made it useless. I'm French anyway, why translate it to English? I don't even live in an English-speaking country either (not that translating to Dutch would have been better).
>"Why would I want this?"
But showing me bad English translations of video titles from my native language without option to disable is stupid.
Defaulting to auto dubbed videos for a language I speak and having to hit that small button each time is annoying.
It's cool for some stuff, when I don't speak the language, and where the content is valuable, but it has to be an option.
(Also, I for one pay for YouTube premium)
Also for the sound track sometimes there isn't even an option to disable it depending on what experiment or client you are using.