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Every time I find a video that was shot in my mother tongue auto-translated into English I want to bang my head against the wall. I've told Google in multiple ways that I'm multilingual and it just doesn't get it. It's worst on mobile, where you can't switch the audio channel to the original sound.

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Spent a week in Africa, now YT swears that I know Arabic.

I haven’t watched a single Arabic video.

Any Googlers here that can explain how Google can be so bad at designing products?

Respectfully, at this point, do we need Googlers to explain?

Structurally: launch-dependent levels/career advancement. Design wise: massive over reliance on A/B testing. Philosophically: a company hell bent on observing, categorizing, and exploiting us in extremis in exchange for only a tiny "relevant" slice of their potential deliverable.

Because of their focus on "scale", they have never cared about any individual user. The indifference of their technical systems is absolute.

But in this hyperpersonalisation era, we somehow give them a free pass when their A/B testing should catch these exact things.

Taking a vacation abroad cant be a new concept for them.

>Spent a week in Africa, now YT swears that I know Arabic.

Logged into Twitch in Ukraine once, now Twitch fills my recommendation with _russian_ channels.

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