Randahl FinkOct 28

As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.

But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.

There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.

For profit.

Show threadNoBorg

@randahl
Oh yes, very annoying!
You want to watch something on its original language to catch all whats usually lost on translation. Do anybody knows how to turn off that annoying translation?

Maybe we should boost DailyMotion

Oct 28 at 10:29amWeb
Show threadRandahl FinkOct 28
@hadon what I need is to figure out if Dailymotion is an ethically sound alternative. I know nothing about the people behind it.
Show threadNoBorgOct 28
@randahl
I'm looking more in detail in an investment site and it's not so simple. Yes, Bolloré owns about 30% of Canal+ but when you see the other investors, you find a lot of Common Funds ( American retirement investors... the ones that are suffering a lot under Trump).
https://fr.investing.com/equities/canal-ownership
Show threadbluGillOct 28

@hadon

@randahl I even have spanish set as a language I speak and google still insists on giving me their poor translations.

Show threadNoBorgOct 28

@bluGill @randahl

It seems like we have to change language for each video?
I tried to watch a foreign video and by default it translated it. But I went to the bottom right menu Settings / Audio track , and choose the original language. It worked. But what a waste of time if we have to do it for each video! :/

Show threadRandahl FinkOct 28
@hadon yes exactly — that is the problem. Unless the channel owner explicitly turns it off, which I have done for my channel.
@bluGill
Show threadbluGillOct 31

@hadon

@randahl I'm on a slow laptop so there is 30 seconds of badly translated voice over before I restart the video in the language I want to have it in. This despite my having done everything I can to make it clear that I do understand the original language and so don't need the translation.

Show threadNoBorgOct 31
@bluGill @randahl
Maybe we should all just let Youtube know their translations are not welcome :/