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joelacus / RedditEnhancer

A browser extension to tweak the user interface on Reddit
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Suggestion: disable Reddit's taking the initiative to auto-translate pages into our mother tongues #61

Open OliverFrWTFalreadyTakenComeOnNow opened 4 months ago

OliverFrWTFalreadyTakenComeOnNow commented 4 months ago

It's been a few weeks now that some non-English people occasionally see Reddit posts appear in their own language.

Of course, without having asked for such a thing at all. We understand English, thank you, and we don't need a website to take the intiative to lie to us and act like we're reading a post in our own mother tongue. Plus, the translation is sometimes clunky.

In my own case (baguette represent, bonjour!), that will look like a normal reddit post in my native French, except the language seems suspicious, and I'll notice the addition of /fr in the end of the URL.

This isn't systematic, just something that rarely happens.

Hence, my suggestion: it would be great Reddit Enhancer had another option, to entirely prevent this from happening (would just removing the /fr autorewrite be enough? Honestly, no idea, sorry!).

Thanks for the great Firefox extension btw!

joelacus commented 4 months ago

Bonjour! As a tea and biscuit representative, I've not encountered this, thanks for making me aware. That's frustrating though if they just enabled this without letting users know, and haven't added a way to disable it. Have you checked the user settings?

So does this not happen on every page, just occasionally? That's odd that it isn't consistent.

I don't think removing the /fr will work, as the page will have to be reloaded, and it will likely be appended again. It's probably detecting that your browser language is French (I'm assuming it is?), as using IP would be unreliable, because VPNs. If you press F12 on a website to bring up the dev console, and type in "navigator.language", it will show you which language websites think you are using.

If this is how Reddit is detecting native languages, I may be able to intercept the page when it is loading and change the language to English. I need to look into it.

In the meantime, in the Firefox settings, you could try changing the website language preference. If you add English and move it above French, this may stop Reddit from translating. This would be applied to all websites though. I've not tested this, so I can't say for sure.

Thanks :)

Anglodel commented 3 weeks ago

Hi, I discovered this add-on when searching for this exact feature. As a Baguette-eater representative⁽²⁾ who also understands English™ and doesn’t like to be fooled with uncanny translations, I also would be happy to see this type of feature in your add-on.

Thanks for developing it, anyway, @joelacus ! Have a nice day,