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97 points kozika | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source

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lynx97 ◴[25 Jun 25 10:35 UTC] No.44375695[source]▶

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.

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1. diggan ◴[25 Jun 25 12:43 UTC] No.44376653[source]▶

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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.

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