[wazoox]

He mentions the video, it's the latest Curious Droid video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHONQAMV48&t=626s

I met the same problem when some videos had bizarre, translated titles. Nothing as weird as the OP, though.

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8TS1Nnbc54

I see the title "Grandpa's Grub #2 in the Aude" in Firefox; but in Chromium the title is "LA POPOTE À PÉPÉ Épisode #2 Dans l'Aude à Saint-Gaudéric." which is probably right (all the videos in the series are French, in French and titled in French).

So there's definitely something weird going on, and it's breaking badly youtube. Google never was able to understand that I'm able to read several languages, thank you, and I don't want no stupid auto-translate, ever. Particularly when auto-translate randomly drops words (as in my video example).

[squarefoot]

"Google never was able to understand that I'm able to read several languages, thank you, and I don't want no stupid auto-translate, ever."

Same problem on Ebay, and they have a much worse translator than Google, so that English product names get sometimes translated in funny totally unrelated words. I asked them if there's a way to turn off the translation and get only original English terms but alas no way.

[wongarsu]

I've never understood why youtube started autotranslating video titles (it's probably in an A/B test as it doesn't always happen). If I can't understand the video title, what's the point in translating it? I wouldn't understand the video either.

[therein]

Yup, I've had this happen to me in Firefox as well. It's almost as if someone was doing an A/B test and didn't want to bother with putting thought into the selectors so they just said fuck it in Firefox we will do A and B in Chrome.