[rickcarlino]

Unbelievable that YouTube has not made this feature configurable. I am a language learner and use YouTube to find target language content. It’s very difficult now because you can no longer trust the title of the video to tell you what language it was intended for. Would have been very simple to add a settings toggle. This is one of the worst app inconveniences I’ve come across in recent years.

[kaoD]

I don't even need a configurable toggle. I just need YouTube to understand I am native Spanish and English speaker and leave those untouched.

[sweetjuly]

This is what baffles me the most. It's not just that they're foisting machine translation on people to boost some nonsense KPI, but that they're assuming that everyone speaks only one language. Tech is awfully hegemonic, sure, but it is unimaginable that only oblivious monolingual people worked on this feature. Did they just ignore internal complaints about this before they shipped it? How does a feature even get built like this?

[1oooqooq]

most open source clients allow you do pick the language and subtitle just fine. youtube backend is pretty decent, despite the frontend team being there just to add ads.

i recommend "PipePipe" on android.

if you are waiting for them to add that feature on the native player, remember google haven't added a single feature to gmail app besides reading email... you cannot even create a filter.

[RandomThoughts3]

Google has always been a pain when it comes to internationalisation.

The number of hoops you have to jump through to get results from the actual Google page when you are outside of the US is mind boggling. I don’t even know if it’s still possible.

[culturestate]

> The number of hoops you have to jump through to get results from the actual Google page when you are outside of the US is mind boggling.

Do you mean results in English, or results that are specifically US-centric?

[bombela]

Not op. But my experience is both. It's impossible to get Google to search for a specific region in a specific language. DuckDuckGo is far better on this. You can use add regions to search for, and quickly toggle them.

[realusername]

It's the same on Youtube, it's still impossible to search videos by language.