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Yes, these are automatically translated by YT. I'm seeing a lot of video titles that have suddenly been translated to Dutch when I log in. I find this very annoying and have been looking how to turn it off, but couldn't find it.

In my observation not all videos have translated titles, I'd say about 20~30%. So my theory is that it is either some A/B test from YT, or that the channel owner can opt in/out of the automatic translations.

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The only way I've managed to turn it off is by changing the language of youtube to be English (I've had it in my native language before).

I'm French but have everything in English (system, browser & YouTube). I've seen a lot of French YouTube videos with their title auto-translated in English a couple of weeks after their diffusion.

(Bad for two reasons: (1) badly translated titles, sometimes hilariously so, and (2) the algorithm recommends me videos I have already watched. I guess (2) is because I don't usually watch the last 20 seconds, the static "my last video was", whatever it's called, so YouTube must think I haven't watched the video. Most times, the red gauge below the video thumbnail shows half-full even though I've watched the video minus these 20 seconds. There's still room for improvements...)

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