[FinnLobsien]

I absolutely hate this. I have the exact same thing. Even if the technology was good, I speak both languages and want to see the original.

Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user?

[bunderbunder]

> Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user?

Office politics. Google is famously "performance-driven", so the manager in charge of that feature needs usage metrics to be high for the sake of their own career.

(Speculating, of course.)

[FinnLobsien]

That's a funny idea—if the KPI was boosting adoption of a feature and the PM just made that feature the default and suddenly adoption was through the roof.

The sad part is we can't rule that out.

[preisschild]

This would also be good for movies :D

I can speak german, I don't need forced subtitles for the nazis

[jiehong]

Sometimes we do, when actors actually don’t speak German very well (or Russian or Chinese or French)

[avhception]

I wonder if Lidl or the other advertisers know and approve of this.

[FinnLobsien]

I mean it's probably somewhere, deep in the ToS but pretty sure if you showed that machine voice to the advertisers they wouldn't approve.