Comment by femtozer
2 months ago
I also pay for YouTube Premium, but I still use ReVanced on my smartphone just to disable auto-translation. It’s absolute madness that users can’t configure this in the official app.
2 months ago
I also pay for YouTube Premium, but I still use ReVanced on my smartphone just to disable auto-translation. It’s absolute madness that users can’t configure this in the official app.
The auto-dub feature is madness. I noticed it first a couple of days ago, I'm crossing my fingers that few authors choose to enable it, and that YouTube makes it easy to disable as a default in settings (not currently possible, you have to do it as you watch, every time).
I'm in a Spanish speaking country, but I want to watch English videos in English.
Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!
It is enabled by default. One creator of English language content had their video misclassified as Spanish and people were getting a machine English dub on an English video. Support to fix it appears to be a nightmare.
Wait, do you mean it's enabled by default but the author can disable it?
If not, I wonder why I can still watch most videos in their original language (even though I'm in a Spanish-speaking country), and I only encountered this once so far.
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I don't want it dubbed whether I speak the language or not.
Yes, this is what I mean. I NEVER want it dubbed.
I'd rather use auto-generated subtitles (even if flawed), but I want to hear the original voices!
What about the auto translated titles? It also happens for chapters in the video...
Sames languages as you. It drives me nuts because the translations are almost always wrong.
This “feature” amazes me. It is badly done and a bad idea. I haver never watched a dubbed video so why show me a translated title? It’s also surprising, Google has plenty ESL employees on staff.
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Comments are quite good at pointing out when the creator has accidentally left it on (it is of course enabled by default and authors have to actively disable it).
> Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!
The first time I saw this feature, it was on a cover of some pop song in a foreign language. Why on Earth... ?
It’ll be fixed when some product manager can offer it as a promotion project
I was talking to "my friend" about how I'm annoyed my calendar duplicates holidays because it imports from multiple calendars and he asked me "what value" would be provided if this was solved. Confused I said it pushes things off so I can't read events. He clarified he meant monetary value...
We're both programmers so we're both know we're talking about a one line regex...
I know quite a number of people like this and they're in high positions at big tech companies... doesn't take a genius to figure out why everything has such shitty user experiences and why all the software is so poorly written. No one even seems to care about the actual product they'll only correct you to tell you the product is the stock and the customer is the shareholder, not the user.
We fucked up...
What did you tell him was the monetary value? Let's say there are like 5 holidays per year that result in days where some people have holidays but others do not, so business meetings happen that day that get missed. Let's say you have a 100 million people using this calendar software. Let's say 0.5 percent of those are in the executive class. Furthermore, let's say 10% of them miss a meeting due to this UI issue. That's 50,000 missed meetings. If we handwave that each of those meetings could have resulted in $10 million deals for their company, this UI bug is costing customers half a trillion dollars!
So, after estimating the number of ping pong balls that fit on a 747, the thing to do is to go write the regexp and put that on your promo packet. Half a trillion dollars!
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Hmm. If the annual subscription is $100 then the value of fixing this is $100.
If it is free, then, what's the profile worth for a year... there's the value.
User retention is a thing.
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> We're both programmers so we're both know we're talking about a one line regex...
As a big tech programmer, it's almost never that simple...
Small edges cases not covered by a one line regex can mean big issues at scale, especially when we're talking about removing things from a calendar.
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and removed when that person who is promoted doesn't work on it again
I wonder who got the idea at Youtube that forced auto-dub was a good idea. This shows how dysfunctional the management is. It's one thing to have assholes in your team, it's a different thing to not look at what they are doing.
I tried installing ReVanced recently. The configuration of the system (install a downloader/updater which then installs the app) was a huge turn-off. Why is it so complicated? Moreover, why not NewPipe or LibreTube?
When it was just YouTube Vanced they got DMCA'd for redistributing "stolen software"
So instead of "stolen software" they distribute "patches" and a patching framework.
Legally distinct and modding is a much grayer area.
It's code you run locally to company the file, change the bytecode and repack it.
I haven't used it myself, but my understanding was that revanced was patching the offical youtube app, while the other two are from scratch reimplementations. You wouldn't be allowed to distribute the full version of revanced, you can only distribute the patch.
Because no matter how much the YouTube app may suck in various ways, it's still vastly better than NewPipe and LibreTube in UX and much more enjoyable to use. So I'd rather use a patched version where the bad parts are removed over something like NewPipe which is just nowhere as polished.
Thanks for the recommendation.
I was using the browser feature that disables the mobile mode on smartphones.
The autodub feature should be disabled asap. Or at least have a way to disable globally on all my devices.