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by Nullabillity 353 days ago
> A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form.

A better solution would have been to just not ship this disaster of a "feature" in the first place.

I wouldn't want my browser to automatically translate every page I go to (without my consent!) either, and that would've been a much easier job!