google ties that setting to your account. you have to sign-in.
Yeah good luck making changing that work
sign-in and change it here for your account, while signed in to google sites:
https://myaccount.google.com/languageor don’t sign-in, change it for search only.
https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en&lang=1&prev=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fpreferences%3Fhl%3Den
this likely uses cookies so it would reset if you clear the one(s) that contain search preferences. the settings link that is actually on google’s home page does take you to this.All set to English except Region
But does it work? Nopes
I’m not signed in and have the option to change language
My current problem with Google (and a problem that I never thought I would have wtfuck) is when I watch some YouTube videos in French the AI auto translates the goddamn audio to English. I don’t want an AI audio translation of the fucking audio and there is no way to set the default not to do that. I have to manually go into the video EVERY TIME IT DOES IT to put it back to the original sound. It’ll create new audio but I can’t get half the videos to show the in language subtitles for non-english videos. SO DUMB.
solution: newpipe/freetube
This is one of the stupidest “features” in the history of computing. It’s like google doesn’t believe in bilingual people. “If you speak English, there’s no way you could also understand French!”
Which is extra ironic since it’s all programmed by bi+lingual Indians lol.
If you’re watching on mobile, YouTube Morphe has the option to disable the audio translation. You can even make a dedicated button for it in the player in case it gets toggled on again. The app also blocks ads and has SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and an AI slop filter built right in.
Does the “app language” not do this for you?
As a multilingual user, fuck me right! I hate it so much that video sites insist on translating video titles, as if I wanted to watch a video in a language I don’t speak. Even a VPN doesn’t quite solve this, because my normal usage when browsing e.g. YouTube isn’t one language or the other but both (though I do prioritize videos in my native language).
Uhhh…. Yes it does. I live in Spain and speak English, I’m not signed in, it’s down at the bottom of their page. No vpn needed. And for apps on your phone it uses the regional setting, but most you can choose the default language in app settings.
Thought I was taking crazy pills, I’ve been changing language for search for years. The amount of people flat out agreeing with misinformation in this thread is wild. Plenty of great reasons to shit on Google but c’mon
It could be some AB testing or regional differences
AB testing or regional
No. This has been this way for at least a decade. I travel the world, use different phones and devices. This is 99% user error.
We can’t rule out the service going to shit for no reason. I’m like 99% sure you used to be able to block YouTube channels, you can’t do that anymore.
It has been this way ever since Google made your GMail Login your Google Account login in the 90’s. I have a UK English Email and a US English Email because I liked that they called the ‘Trash’ the ‘Bin’ in Gmail and it was at least closer to Canadian English which to this day they refuse to recognize.
I mean, today they don’t even recognize Lake Ontario everywhere, so I’m not surprised they don’t offer Canadian English now, but it’s weird they never did. I just checked and my phone maps app offers only German from Germany, which is really weird, because I know Swiss German has at least some very different vocabulary for train based transportation. That could be because my app store and google accounts are originally from the US, though.
Yeah there excuse vacillates between “What do you mean, Canada uses UK English” to “Canada has half the population of the UK so we don’t offer it” to “Just use US English, it is the same as Canadian English”.
Gmail didn’t exist in the 90s. It was first launched in invite-only beta on April 1, 2004.
Dude I joined before the invite only by accident and they accepted me without telling me so I went most of the invite period fighting to get an invite and right before they opened up I went to tell one of my friends the story of how I couldn’t get an invite and they accidentally made one of their test servers for signing up show up on Gmail.com and after seeing a story on Call for Help about the upcoming GMail Service from Google I went to GMail.com and there was a sign up site, and I created an account that most of the way through just stopped working. As I was sitting at the computer and had my browser open I went to Gmail.com and signed in with those credentials to get in and they worked. As for when they opened I am 55 years old and in the past 10 years I have had Acute Kidney Failure that took a little over 2 years to recover from, which had me well into Covid, and when the government here said “Take off your masks” someone in my ‘bubble’ caught it and gave it to me, with lead to long covid, and then a reaction to one of the covid shots that I am still dealing with the effects 4 years later and then a year after that I got covid a second time in spite of masking the whole time. Late 1990’s and 2004 seem so long ago to me they may as well be the same, as they don’t even feel like they are in the same century as me anymore. But you are right, I got the decade wrong. In my mind it happened when I was studying IT and about to graduate and not after, but now that you mention it it had to be because of the show I saw it on.
Check my comment with screenshots of Google including results in Spanish despite having it set in English
I do live in Spain and speak English too and it mixes English and Spanish. I have it set for both interface and results in English.
It is most egregious when looking for video games and products as their names appear in Spanish websites.
Adding the word “review” doesn’t always filter out the Spanish pages as it is adopted in tech websites.
It will also open in the wrong language on every new profile, incognito mode, cookie clear, despite the browser clearly sending that it only wants english language. Likely as punishment for not being trackable.
And it’ll ignore the settings for google maps, and always open in the local language anyway no matter what.
DuckDuckGo
Lol! You can literally set your preferred language in “settings”.
You guys still use google ? 😂😂😂
How about https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 ???
?hl=en
yw.
I use a plugin for that:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stay-in-my-language-google/
Click on your profile bubble. On Mobile it’s in the top right hand corner. Go to settings. Go to other settings. Language and region can be set manually.
Language and region can be set manually.
But not separately. You can’t have the interface in English while on an English speaking region.
And you can only set one language / region. I’m interested in results in a number of languages (ordered by priority), untranslated unless I fucking ask for a translation, and from a number of possibly unrelated regions (also ordered by priority).
And my region / language isn’t an option anyway, so it’s either the wrong, English speaking, region, or the closest region but the wrong language.
The whole concept is so profoundly imperialist and ignorant it makes me sick. Whoever perpetrated it is so tragically miseducated they can’t even conceive the notion that their users might be able to understand more than one language, or be interested in more than one culture or region.
You understood it wrong. The setting is in the browser itself. Just use anything except google. Maybe one day they will see the 0.001% dip in search and change it
So do we actually respect the Accept-Language header or is that just for tracking now?
People still use Google?
I download all my podcasts with the VPN on my phone set to France or Ireland. The ads are adorably useless and a pleasure to hear.
