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Yes YouTube, I have my browser set to French, but I read and understand English perfectly fine, please stop badly translating English video titles (or force-enabling french auto-dub, it's even worse). At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date"}, {"id": 742632720, "item_id": 46414545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414545", "by": "pentagrama", "date": "2025-12-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "To avoid YouTube auto-dubbing I use https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/", "excerpt": "To avoid YouTube auto-dubbing I use https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/ Recommended!", "context": "", "use_case": "avoid YouTube auto-dubbing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results"}, {"id": 736841472, "item_id": 46052592, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052592", "by": "jacekm", "date": "2025-11-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In the meantime \"YouTube No Translation\" addon fixes the issue.", "excerpt": "In the meantime \"YouTube No Translation\" addon fixes the issue. https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/", "context": "", "use_case": "Disable automatic YouTube dubs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"}, {"id": 733647760, "item_id": 45852985, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852985", "by": "majorchord", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "does the trick for me", "excerpt": "https://github.com/YouG-o/YouTube-No-Translation does the trick for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "Disable YouTube auto-translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"}, {"id": 733610944, "item_id": 45850684, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850684", "by": "mtmail", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Quite happy with an extension which disables the feature", "excerpt": "Quite happy with an extension which disables the feature (not happy with Youtube forcing the feature). https://github.com/YouG-o/YouTube-No-Translation", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["disable youtube translations and ai dubs", "avoid youtube auto-dubbing", "disable automatic youtube dubs", "disable youtube auto-translation", "turn off auto-translated titles and dubs"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848504", "title": "Gmail AI gets more intrusive", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770", "title": "End of Japanese community", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571628", "title": "YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524873", "title": "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413348", "title": "Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340", "title": "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 4}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 745159361, "item_id": 46572460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572460", "by": "LelouBil", "date": "2026-01-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago", "excerpt": "Forced translations. 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