Like many of you, I use YouTube a ton for learning and consuming content in my TL language. For a while now, YouTube has been auto-dubbing videos as well as changing the titles into English (my default language) but now they're doing it to whole descriptions too!
I use news clips with transcripts in the description to practice my TL and now they're all magically transformed into English. Why would the Google overlords assume that's what we want?
With the auto-dubbing, at least you have the option to pick the original language, but as far as I can tell there's no setting to turn off the auto-translations of the titles or descriptions. And they don't even tell you they're doing it so you don't know what's original.
Am I the only one mad about this? And does anyone have a workaround?
And before you say I can switch the whole platform to my TL, I choose not to in order to: a) watch in multiple languages and b) keep TL content a natural part of my life.
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