Web Translator API

Can we please NOT autotranslate the web? I have yet to find a site where the quality of autotranslate does not make me stop using that site. I was already irritated when google started to show me de.wikipedia.org articles adespite me explicitly searching for the english article name. Then came Etsy, where the autotranslate quality was so bad I stopped using the site altogether.

The good news is that if the browsers offered this natively, websites wouldn't need their own implementation of this. And if it's in the client (the browser), you're most likely gonna be able to turn it off globally, just like how you like it.

Worst case scenario a user-script/extension could monkey patch it out, but probably clients will let you disable it.

This is not auto-translation.

Rather, it's an API developers can use to add inline translation to web apps.

For example, under a comment in your app, you can (a) detect the language, and (b) if it's different from the current users/browsers language, offer to translate it with a small link (c) if the user clicks the link, the content is translated to their language.

But Reddit already does it! It's a new form of cultural colonisation by a headless society.