I don't even use google. We are not the same
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You can change the language by going into advanced tools but it's a bit buried because Google search fucking sucks now. The results will suck regardless of which language you choose. They show you what they want you to see, not what you are actually looking for.
My current problem with Google (and a problem that I never thought I would have wtfuck) is when I watch some YouTube videos in French the AI auto translates the goddamn audio to English. I don't want an AI audio translation of the fucking audio and there is no way to set the default not to do that. I have to manually go into the video EVERY TIME IT DOES IT to put it back to the original sound. It'll create new audio but I can't get half the videos to show the in language subtitles for non-english videos. SO DUMB.
This is one of the stupidest “features” in the history of computing. It’s like google doesn’t believe in bilingual people. “If you speak English, there’s no way you could also understand French!”
YouTube does not autotranslate for any language which is set in your Google profile. It's hidden as hell, but for me adding e.g. English there made all the English videos not being ai translated anymore.
If you're watching on mobile, YouTube Morphe has the option to disable the audio translation. You can even make a dedicated button for it in the player in case it gets toggled on again. The app also blocks ads and has SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and an AI slop filter built right in.
I wonder if anyone's made an extension to automatically disable AI auto dub?
You use google
I usw duckduckgo
We are not the same
You use DuckDuckGo - I use SearXNG
We are not the same
I feel this is a meme the average sketchy VPN company would share in their social media to catch users.
Because even for that multi billion dollar company their developers still don't understand that country isn't equal to language preference. This has been an issue since the 90's that still isn't solved.
You understood it wrong. The setting is in the browser itself. Just use anything except google. Maybe one day they will see the 0.001% dip in search and change it
Some streaming services only offer translation subtitles related to the primary language of where you are.
So if I'm in Germany and want to watch a Swedish crime drama all i can get are German subs.
But if i use a vpn to say I'm in England... the English subs are magically available.
(Provided they also have the license to play the show in England).
Click on your profile bubble. On Mobile it's in the top right hand corner. Go to settings. Go to other settings. Language and region can be set manually.
Language and region can be set manually.
But not separately. You can't have the interface in English while on a non English speaking region.
And you can only set one language / region. I'm interested in results in a number of languages (ordered by priority), untranslated unless I fucking ask for a translation, and from a number of possibly unrelated regions (also ordered by priority).
And my region / language isn't an option anyway, so it's either the wrong, English speaking, region, or the closest region but the wrong language.
The whole concept is so profoundly imperialist and ignorant it makes me sick. Whoever perpetrated it is so tragically miseducated they can't even conceive the notion that their users might be able to understand more than one language, or be interested in more than one culture or region.
I use a plugin for that:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stay-in-my-language-google/
I download all my podcasts with the VPN on my phone set to France or Ireland. The ads are adorably useless and a pleasure to hear.
How about https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 ???
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