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I'm a native English speaker fluent in Japanese, recently moved to Japan this year. The one that really gets me lately is YouTube now automatically dubbing over content in Japanese that was originally in English. It's... so uncanny.

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Yeah, that is a massive problem. This can't be disabled by the user, only be the channel owner. It's awful. The only solution is switching the YouTube UI language to English, to get the original English audio track. But then, presumably, all other languages would get machine translated into English. There is nothing one can do.

It's a problem for everyone who speaks >1 language (the majority of the world?) since you can't turn it off.

The YouTube No Translation add-on automatically turns off the robodubs and translated titles:

https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/

Before I discovered it I was getting so frustrated with the lousy robotranslations on YouTube.

Nice, thanks.

I recently found out DeArrow (an amazing extension to remove clickbait titles and thumbnails) also has an option to hide translated titles, off by default. But the extension you recommend can be used to force the audio track, which is very helpful.

I'm in a similar situation. I really wish there was a way to stop YouTube from suggesting me auto-dubbed videos.

You can use the YouTube No Translation add-on to automatically turn off the robodubs and translated titles:

https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/

ThereShouldBeTheQuoteAudioTrackQuoteOptionUnderGearIconMenuAtTheRightBottomCornerOfVideoUserInterfaceAmongWhichEnglishIsOfCourseNearTheBottomOfTheListButNotQuiteTheLastItem

but it only applies to that specific video, and yeah, it makes no sense that this passed sniff tests for Google.

Me and my GF had plenty of laughs in the beginning. Now it's become just annoying.

It is awful. Its also not so transparent that its being done which feels unethical.

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