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Comment by vehemenz | Hacker News Reader

There is a simple fix to disable auto dubbing.

Go into your Google account settings, under General, then add any languages that you watch YouTube videos in. I did this for Spanish and all my Spanish videos stopped getting dubs and translated titles.

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What about video titles themselves? It's very annoying.

Didn't work for me, at least instantly. Maybe it takes a while to process through their services. No idea

Err, from a quick check, this might actually work. Thanks I guess, but how come this isn't an easy option in the YouTube UI?!

Doesn't always work, I irregularly get autodubbing on certain creators, like Mark Robber

This only works if you login to YouTube, something I will never do.

They still track you? Is there much of a difference? Get an account you only use for YT, I can't imagine the difference in data leaking will be that much greater if they track you just by IP/other fingerprinting vs a session?

You would need a Google account and that requires another mobile phone number burned.

You used to be able to make a google account without a phone number through Android TV. Not sure if that still works.

Google requires a phone number?

Only if you use a bad / risky ip or browser.

What's a bad browser?

Thanks, I went there and added spanish since google and youtube were auto translating some stuff for me lately out of nowhere and I saw that there was a language already added for me by google, Uzbek. WTF?

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