YouTube has been aggressively pushing for more ads on its platform. And their antics circumvent their own supposedly ad-free subscription. YouTube Premium, at a fixed price, is supposed to deliver the unaltered experience and more, like added functionality. But as I have covered before on the topic, YouTube is bad at keeping up with their own platform as-is: subtitles, PIP, multi-language support. The list goes on.
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How to Stop YouTube AI-Translation on Mobile
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.
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 Download YouTube Videos
There are many web-based YouTube downloaders out there, but I thought to share one that is known to work locally. Instead of worrying about which button is the real “download” on the web, I thought why not use a program that runs locally and possibly from more reputable sources.
App to Display Subtitles and CC on iOS YouTube PiP
The official YouTube app is mostly hit-and-miss on mobile devices. I can’t speak for all experiences, but on iOS, the YouTube app does not support subtitles or CC on PiP, or picture in picture. I had tried using YouTube Premium for this very purpose, but it was up to no avail. For the records, it is not that iOS does not support subtitles on PiP players, there are other media players that display subtitles on PiP. YouTube simply does not support it.
AI Translation Poisoning Search Results
If you have been plagued by the recent YouTube’s AI dubbing, video title and description, that’s the kind of problems that is happening across all Google platform. I am talking about the Google Search results. And believe me when I say it, when I google something in Korean, I expect it to pick up Korean articles, posts, and threads so that it may be useful in the particular context.
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.
Mis-Recipes, Dis-Recipes, and AI Recipes
When ChatGPT-craze was still booming, there was a YouTuber who put the AI recipes to the test. It doesn’t take professional baker to immediately catch what is off with the recipe GPT-3 has written for her. Her video mostly focuses on the experimentation and information on where AI technology stands on food.
Music Streaming, Geoblock, and Piracy
Continuation from the previous post on music streaming and licensing, I thought to add a bit more on geoblock —perhaps another form of licensing issue— to the mix. I have consistently expressed my distaste for geoblock, and what’s at stake here for music streaming services are quite larger than what it was for video streaming.
Customize macOS Media Key Behaviors
For better or worse, it appears Apple is pushing the media key to be more universal through out its platform. iOS already comes with unified media control on its control center, and it seems macOS will quickly follow suite. It then becomes the matter of how to streamline a control center of sort for Mac.
Apple Firing Engineer over iPhone X Vlog Reveals “Emerging Adult” Mishap
We have many names for it, and probably there have been many. In the end, Da Vinci Code concluded with the arrest of the murderer and conspirator behind the veils. It was nothing more than untrimmed fat for the conspiracy theory Dan Brown wanted to tell. But as a fiction, having a plot was crucial. However, somehow in contemporary journalism it is important to have themes and memes, but not the plot. An engineer from a silicon valley corporation getting fired over trivial video is a framing device. What happened to the families? How did that affect her and her…
Sony Leaks Korean-Sub The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Youtube
As for the movie itself, don’t bother to watch it. The plot follows every tropes deployed in Raimi trilogy to the teeth, and the characters have failed to digest elements that are exclusive to the comics. —simply making a Spiderman more talkative does not make it a better adaptation— Perhaps in the future I might write a review comparing the two series.