Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.
As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?
Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.
Please don't do this.
@julienbarnoin If the original page is in English give me English. If there’s something I don’t understand I can figure it out.
If you translate to Dutch or Norwegian with AI I won’t understand. And I can’t easily figure i out.
@jornane Exactly. I set up my Firefox language priorities to say "Show me french if it's available, otherwise show me english."
It does not mean I need english uselessly auto-translated to french, since I can read it fine, this was meant to apply to content actually authored in french or translated by a human.
Now it's making me reconsider these settings because every second page displays in crap-french and the first thing I do is hunt for the language button.
@julienbarnoin It’s also flat out wrong use of the Accept-Language header.
I have the auto translators blocked on my Firefox, so that helps
Julien Barnoin
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