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feat(patch): Ability to configure YouTube comment translation #1153

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LiphiTC opened this issue Apr 15, 2023 · 4 comments
Closed
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feat(patch): Ability to configure YouTube comment translation #1153

LiphiTC opened this issue Apr 15, 2023 · 4 comments
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LiphiTC commented Apr 15, 2023

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YouTube (com.google.android.youtube)

Issue

Currently you can't change the language of your comment translator. YouTube says that it is based on "your watch history" and "personal preferences". Changing your location and language(in both yt and google account) doesn't help. The only "solution" I found from here recommends to delete your watch history which is some cases not a perfect one. Also you can't configure which language should be ignored. For example, if you see a comment in your native language, you don't want to see annoying message "Translate into English".

Patch

  1. I guess it's technically possible to spoof the language that is used to translate comments. It's probably uses some google translator api. If youtube actually prevents from spoofing language, we can try to use some 3rd party translator(e.g. LibreTranslate), which will be less accurate, but still better than nothing.
  2. Ignore list of known languages should be also pretty easy, if youtube sends the language of a comment to a client.

Motivation

Google seems not to care about this issue.
A lot of people like this feature because it allows to reduce language barrier between members of a community. The fact that you can't configure this feature at all is pretty sad.

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@LiphiTC LiphiTC added the Feature request Requesting a new feature that's not implemented yet label Apr 15, 2023
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That's a nice feature you are requesting I was thinking of the same but forgot lol

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@oSumAtrIX oSumAtrIX transferred this issue from ReVanced/revanced-patches-template Dec 14, 2023
@oSumAtrIX oSumAtrIX transferred this issue from another repository Dec 14, 2023
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Over time, a lot of feature requests have been made, which is why I am closing some according to the contribution guidelines:

Requests can be accepted or rejected at the discretion of maintainers of ReVanced Patches

This feature request has been closed for one or more of the following reasons:

  • Stale for too long
  • Low priority
  • Maintainers un-interested
  • Too complex to realize

Regardless, anyone who comes across this feature request can PR it. Thanks for the feature request!

@oSumAtrIX oSumAtrIX closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jun 1, 2024
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