In my previous post, I’ve hinted there is something in the works for the mobile environment. I wasn’t sure how well it would work. For some contexts, YouTube has a mobile webpage, not a responsive UI like you see on The Mad Tea Party. You can easily catch that by the subdomain, m.youtube., when it automatically redirects mobile users. Now, an argument can be made — I believe this is where Google stands — the best mobile UX for YouTube is on YouTube app. But that’s not always an option, especially when it comes to stopping AI translation.
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App to Stop YouTube AI-Translation via User script
I had covered this issue before using a dedicated add-on on browsers. While it worked, there were two problems, at least in my opinion: a. it’s a separate app just for one website, b. it’s not available on iOS. Granted, I was not able to find a universal user script that works on both platforms, but tweaking it takes little to no effort as most of the script can be edited by the user.
App to Stop AI-Translation on YouTube
When I began browsing to find a monitor, there was one unescapable trends amongst the YouTube-based reviewers. Most of them have enabled AI-based translations on their videos, and some went so far to enable AI-dub their videos. Before anybody embraced by AI-grace would shout at me otherwise, AI powered translations are not perfect; in fact, I often find them to be either misleading or flat out wrong. The only element AI has gotten it right, for the lack of better words, is the mimicry of the original speaker’s voice in target language.