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gosh I hate it when websites automatically translate their text to German and I feel like I'm in a fever dream for a few seconds

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I am fluent in English, but obvs language settings weren't made for bilingual people, and the translation is so bad it wouldn't even help me if I didn't know a single word of English

@noiob Youtube recently started doing this for video titles and descriptions and it's incredibly disorienting

@elomatreb oh yeah I found it handy on japanese titles but on english ones it's just off-putting, like what do you think, I'm watching these videos with a lot of English speech in them regularly, but I can't read the hecking title?

@noiob The worst thing probably is that the youtube execs will assume this is a good thing because it artificially inflates click rates because it seems strange at first, so it looks like an improvement on A/B test rates
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