Then looks like these peeps don’t enable it. I get this option rarely.
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hinterlufer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you speaking of YouTube? YouTube has a “feature” that will auto-translate titles of videos to your account language (the creator may have to enable this, not sure).
If you google for the issue you’ll find multiple people with the same issue, but afaik there’s not really a proper way to prevent the translation. If you do understand the original language, you can add it to your account languages to stop translation though.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Malix@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
afaik not an option for creators, OR it isn’t an option for me/my videos.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Interesting. I really wonder why YouTube hasn’t made this universal. Like… It works quite well for the videos that I get the option for. Maybe it doesn’t work for videos where it isn’t confident about the auto-transcription?
Malix@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
That’s probably the thing. My videos are in finnish, with quite a bit of background speech in english (long story short: they’re letsplays). Could be that the auto-transcription can’t quite parse the random mix of finnish and english. I’ve mostly seen some odd videotitles translated to finnish, and tbh, they are so wildly confusing to me. I almost skipped a video from one of my fav. creators due to the title as I wasn’t expecting it.