Thanks for sharing this, this type of hostile behavior from YouTube is terrible, this should be opt in. I'm currently using YouTube Anti Translate [1], which is also open source [2]. Not sure if this one has some advantages, will check it out.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-anti-...

[2] https://github.com/zpix1/yt-anti-translate

the youtube translations aren't really good either. i'm constantly puzzled by videos with absolutely nonsensical titles until i remember that it's probably auto-translated and have to work out what the original meaning was.

for example, "more plates more dates" has been translated to "Mehr Teller mehr Termine".

not allowing this feature to be disabled is such an user hostile decision.

As a person with a YouTube channel with most Italian content, and only coding content in English: as it is today, it is horrible. But if they fix it to the stop AI standards of voice translation, it will be a game changer. I'm referring to natural voice (matching the original one) lips sync, and there will no longer be language barriers on YouTube.

On the topic of multi-lingual - I frequently use airplay to cast to my apple tv from my laptop but a large number of videos now have alternative language tracks that apple decides to play and there's no way to change it. No language tracks show up. Worse is it changes language tracks after a few seconds.

Any have any idea how to fix this?

The worst part of this so-called “feature” is when very diligent creators from non-English-speaking countries already present in English language. But YouTube just assumes it's in their native language, so you have this horrible AI voiceover by default instead of their voice or VO artist that they use.

I can recommend the DeArrow extension for this. It has an option to always show the untranslated title. Plus, it has the intended features such as thumbnail replacement and crowd-sourced titles. DeArrow works in Android Firefox.

It's unfortunate that YouTube is only usable with these extensions, but here we are.

Thanks for this! The automatic title translation are so low quality I'm surprised the same company created Google Translator. In a lion share cases they are plain wrong, in most they are awkward, in all - they are misleading that the content somehow promises native experience.

The interface to YouTube used by yt-dlp does still list the different audio tracks and labels the original one.

The problems reported by everyone in this thread sound to me like UI bugs of the player, official app or javascript in the browser, picking the wrong audio track automatically.

Nowadays to use youtube efficiently with ADHD, you practically need all of:

(a) uBlock - this one is debatable but deals with the worst distractions especially if you're trying to learn from a video your professor put up and you have an exam to prepare for, (b) unhook - hides most of the "recommendations" that attempt to keep you on the site because you're planning to do the copmprehension questions your professor gave you for after the video, (c) something to disable "autoplay next" for the same reason as above (a uBlock rule will do it), (d) no translation. Soon we'll probably need (e) something to block AI.

Personally I find the translation and dubbing of videos to be super helpful as someone who is only fluent in English. I found a few creators from around the world that I follow now because of this. But I can understand the frustration if someone knows more than one language. Been seeing more and more posts about this complaining about it. Hopefully Google adds this as an option on Youtube instead of requiring a third party add-on.