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Posted by doener 6/29/2025

YouTube No Translation(addons.mozilla.org)
469 points | 332 commentspage 5
anon025 7/1/2025|
YouTube has become annoying with the AI thing. I live in the US but speak Spanish and consume almost 80% of content in Spanish and my OS and Keyboard are in Spanish, yet the thing is not able to respect the Accept-Language headers :(
ryzvonusef 7/2/2025||
as a pakistani natively bilingual in urdu and english, it's doubly annoying, because it doesn't have urdu, it has hindi. While the languages are very similar but still different enough to get annoying and confusing.

So it tries to dub urdu videos (as 'hindi' videos) into english, or dub english into hindi, which is useless for me both ways.

Instead of dubbing, make better subs! YouTube subs fail to track when using the video speed feature, so if i am using any other speed playback than 1x, the subs don't load on time, and sometimes get skipped, fix that!

dzogchen 7/1/2025||
Oh my God this is auto translation business is so incredibly annoying. Especially for people that know multiple languages. But I imagine it is the worst for people who are trying to learn another language...
11mariom 7/1/2025||
Few days ago I was surprised when video started in dubbed mode… I always watch everything in original audio, and turn subtitles when needed. At least for audio I found a setting, but titles… WHY?!

Thanks for sharing addon :)

cosmodev 7/1/2025||
As someone whose native language isn't English but uses English across devices and daily life, this add-on is incredibly useful. I still prefer seeing video titles in my own language.
danielspace23 7/1/2025||
I honestly can't wrap my head around what some users do just to have the "stock" experience.

In order to get a vaguely usable stock YouTube, you need to install at least UBlock, SponsorBlock, No Translation, and arguably DeArrow as well. And this only works for browsers, many people will cope with their mobile YouTube experience being hell on earth. Why do all this when you can get an alternative cross-platform client like GrayJay with all the same features (minus DeArrow for now), which works out of the box, has more privacy, and won't be completely useless the next time Google decides to shift things around a bit?

Same goes for Windows: you'll see people who go to great lengths to disable telemetry, remove Edge and sponsored content, often having to run random scripts from the internet with administrator privileges, just to have everything reset on the next Windows update. Remember how Windows users made fun of Linux users for having to open a command line for installing a browser (which isn't even true)?

I could go on: you can get Firefox and spend hours tweaking about:config to disable the anti-features, or you can get one of the dozen forks with the same patches pre-applied, yet some people will still defend the stock experience with their lives.

carlosjobim 7/1/2025||
> In order to get a vaguely usable stock YouTube, you need to install at least UBlock, SponsorBlock, No Translation, and arguably DeArrow as well.

UBlock: Solved by using YouTube Premium

SponsorBlock: Solved by not watching low-quality channels with sponsors. Also YouTube has started rolling out their own version of SponsorBlock to skip these segments.

No Translation: Yeah, this is a pain in stock YouTube

DeArrow: Why would I want clickbait thumbnails and titles fixed? Those are perfect indicators of a low quality video to not click.

> Same goes for Windows

Sure does. People who want a nice experience get a Mac, which is somewhat equivalent to paying for YouTube Premium.

> GrayJay

Can't install it on a Roku or on Apple TV. YouTube Premium is still the best option for TV watching.

danielspace23 7/1/2025||
What's your argument here? That if you don't pay you shouldn't get a decent user experience, and paying solves every issue so we might as well give into the enshittification?

The SponsorBlock and DeArrow argument only works some times: clickbait and sponsors can be an indicator of poor quality (see Linus Tech Tips), but they aren't always: even Tom Scott video thumbnails and titles used to get DeArrowed, and I bet no one here would argue that Tom Scott used to push low quality content.

carlosjobim 7/1/2025||
It's normal to pay for products and services which you use and which gives you value. But I also know that hackers have time to argue for at least 13 hours per day why they shouldn't have to pay.

YouTube offers the option to not pay, and instead have horrible interruptions with ads. Maybe in the future they will stop this nonsense and put everything behind a paywall, who knows?

But for normal people wanting to watch YouTube on their TV, there's really no option besides Premium. And it's really an incredible bargain compared to the value you get from it.

> clickbait and sponsors can be an indicator of poor quality (see Linus Tech Tips), but they aren't always

Agree. But I'd rather see a clickbait thumbnail from one of my subscribed channels than be fooled by a cleaned up thumbnail from a clickbait channel.

2Gkashmiri 7/1/2025||
this is funny.

in "i am legend", the last man standing became the "unwanted alien" because everyone else had transformed into something else.

so the abnormal is the new normal. enshittification at its peak

donperignon 7/1/2025||
Please this trend needs to stop, it’s so annoying. Subtitles are good enough and more respectful than this crappy uncontrolled auto transactions
fuomag9 7/1/2025||
I really hate YouTube translations. I DO NOT want YouTube in Italian because I don’t care about Italian content or watching videos in Italian!
heisenbit 7/1/2025||
I‘ve seen YT randomly deciding to translate videos shown in the the Telegram iOS client. No way around it other than view it on YT directly.
kachapopopow 7/1/2025|
The fact that there's a massive delay for auto dubbing is crazy to me, it's not done in real-time, why have the delay?
Narishma 7/1/2025|
What delay are you talking about?
kachapopopow 7/2/2025||
Autodubbing has a good 2-3 second delay before it starts the translated speech and it continues all the way throught the video.
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