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Reddit is the worst offender. I really wonder what goes through the mind of the management clerks at these companies.

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I really wonder what goes through the mind of the management clerks at these companies.

"More $$$!!1"

Yeah, short term. Because power users that are used to switch between languages using internet slang do not like half baked polished translation in their IP-location language. So they leave. Remain mainly low quality users who couldn’t or didn’t wanted to switch between languages. A more powerful forever September again.

While it is annoying, reddit at lest gives you option to see original text.

ah yes, and the auto translation on reddit broke a very useful trick I used all the time

- need information about something in general -> search in English - need information about something specific for my home country (laws, local events, local shops, etc) -> search in my native language

now, I get weird auto translated content informing me about laws that are only applicable in the US and recommended products that are not even available in my home country.

Right. This was incredibly useful.

Even worse - if I search something in my native language, it's because I want to see things relevant to my country! I don't care about experiences of someone in USA or Brasil if I look up for something in Polish :<

When I first encountered this on Reddit I was really confused... They were (are?) translating even the text INSIDE an image. Can't believe how expensive that must've been across the entire frontpage.

But hey, another way to shoehorn AI into being "useful".

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