I would like to know who was the genius at Google/YouTube that thought that force-linking the UI language to half baked translations of the video titles was a good idea.

@EnaWasHere if you're logged in you can now tell it what languages it shouldn't translate

@noiob oh, I haven't noticed that. I'll log in and check. Thanks

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@EnaWasHere it's relatively new but it helps a lot

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@noiob I still think it's a bad idea to not have that option along with the other language related stuff you can change without login in, but they must really want those user analytics :ablobcatwobwork:

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