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by kaoD 334 days ago
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.
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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?