Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by Raed667 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:27AM
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Youtube has this "feature" where it translates video titles for me (and it is always horrible). I feel like it never occurred to them that a person could speak more than one language.
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Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by jobigoud on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:05AM
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Yeah this feature is pretty stupid. It makes you think the video is in a different language than it really is and makes search much more complicated.
I like that you can set language and region on top of the browser settings though and it's cookie based. This way I have a firefox container for Spanish another one for English, etc. Same Youtube account different languages.
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by alpaca128 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:41AM
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Ah yes, that's horrible. No matter if the user couldn't understand a word in the video itself if he needed that translation, let's just deceive him by showing him a badly translated video title in the wrong language. Meanwhile I have to set the site to dark mode and English again multiple times a year because Google struggles to persistently store this simple user setting.
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by liziwizi on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:47AM
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Ow, yes, the translated titles are so confusing. You think you're getting a video in your language, but no, you don't.
It's just a badly translated title and captions.
And don't get me started on those captions! Youtube, please stahp! Why do you keep forcing these? I don't want them, stop pushing them.
Whenever we use Chromecast with multiple people, Youtube enables the auto-translated captions. So, we turn it off, next video youtube turns it on again, we turn it off again, next vid, it's there again. arrgghhhhhh
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by glandium on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:06AM
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The youtube app recently got awful wrt caption. It always enables them now, so I end up disabling them manually. But then if there's an ad in the middle of the video, after the ad, they're back! And that's with subtitles being disabled in the app settings!
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by innocenat on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:47AM
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Is that feature auto? I mean, I find that it is almost always require the uploader to approve the language. Human translator can be horrible too.
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by Raed667 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:12AM
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I don't really know. I assumed it was auto-generated since it has always been bad.
But my point was more that I didn't want localized video titles and I should just get the original one since the video is in that original language anyway.
Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca...
by innocenat on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:13AM
(#23220948)
If it is the intention of the uploader to create a localized title and description, shouldn't you be getting the localized one according to your language setting? I also find it is annoying, but I think it is intention of the uploader.