Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!
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Just noticed...
See the title? No, not the video title. The page title, visible on tab. The one that says "Legenda Ominięcia Bariery". For those who cannot into Polish, it roughly means "The Legend of the Barrier Skip", which is the title of the video, but translated to Polish. It's the first time I've ever seen this anywhere. What's more, it only translates the page title - something no one reads - but leaves the actual video title on the actual page in original language. Because consistency. What's even the point of doing any translation at all?
Oh, and when I moved to USA half a year ago, I changed all the languages of all my devices and accounts to English, precisely because I didn't want things randomly translating to Polish (especially app descriptions in Google Play, which are translated automatically and don't make any sense, and there's no way to see the original). Apparently YouTube account language is separate from Google account language.
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Doesn't do that for me. Which is what I expected. A/B test or something.
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@marczellm it might depend on whether the video title and description have been translated in advance to certain languages by the uploader or community contributors.
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I did some quick googling. Apparently, it's an official feature, and it's been pissing people off for years now.
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@gąska I can see why they thought it’s a good idea — and I think it is, because it lets more people find the video if they can search for it in their own language. At the same time, I think it’s a bad idea because people may be referred to a video by someone who has their preferences set to a different language, and so they possibly won’t be able to find the one they want.
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@gąska it is definitely weird that it is based on country instead of language.
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@lb_ except in my case, I've had country set to USA, and language to Polish (but only YouTube language - Google account language is English (US)).
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@gąska said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
and language to Polish
Oh, well there's your problem. Though it is definitely buggy in that it only shows the translated video title in the page title - it should show everywhere.
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@lb_ said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
@gąska oh, well there's your problem.
That I have a Youtube account? Yes, that's a problem. I don't want one. But I like my GMail, and you can't have one and not the other. I could log out of Youtube, but that would log me out of GMail as well.
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@lb_ said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
@gąska it is definitely weird that it is based on country instead of language.
Weird, bad, but unfortunately not unusual.
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@zecc said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
Weird, bad
No. Straight wrong. Guessing languages for or or gives you terrible chances.
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@luhmann No. I agree more with you than you with me.
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@zecc
You can't! I won't allow it!
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@luhmann said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
@zecc said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
Weird, bad
No. Straight wrong. Guessing languages for or or gives you terrible chances.
It's unreliable everywhere. The number of sites that assume that because I'm in , I want to read about their stuff ONLY in French is ... understandable ... but annoying as all feck. (I read French easily, but not as easily and not as fast as I read English.) As a counter-example, Fedex gets it - you can tell them which country you're in, and their site then offers you a way to say that you want to read about their offerings in that country in a different language.
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@gąska said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
@lb_ said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
@gąska oh, well there's your problem.
That I have a Youtube account? Yes, that's a problem. I don't want one. But I like my GMail, and you can't have one and not the other. I could log out of Youtube, but that would log me out of GMail as well.
Private / incognito browser windows.
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@gąska said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
Well, at least you don't have to worry about contacting a doctor after 4 hours.
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@gąska said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
Upvote for correct use of title attribute.
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@adynathos said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers
Too much work juggling these containers around. I don't care enough to change my browsing habits.
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@gąska said in Let's confuse the hell out of the user by randomly translating even more shit!:
Too much work juggling these containers around. I don't care enough to change my browsing habits.
Ok, one more solution I can think of is to block cookies on youtube.com (or just block third-party cookies altogether), preventing it from getting your login on *.google.com. (GMail is mail.google.com, so it should be fine)
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@gąska What do I have to read there? Szukaj Does your browser not forbid you entering such obscene words? Hey, what happened to @blek that he hasn't detected that yet...