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    How to turn off auto translate?

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    • Antoxic
      Antoxic last edited by

      Hi all,
      Is there a way to turn off auto translate of web pages?
      Everything I surf it appears in my language with fuzzy translation (from Google, I guess) so I'd way prefer to read in original idiom (english, spanish, ecc.)
      I can't find any option to set my webpage language translation preference

      Thank you for help

      Ciao

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Antoxic last edited by

        @antoxic Opera doesn't have a Translate feature, so it's probably being done by an extension or by the sites themselves.

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          Breedneus 1 Reply Last reply
        • Breedneus
          Breedneus @leocg last edited by

          @leocg No, it appears on any website, as it opens automatically in Google. Changing it in Chrome (= elsewhere) is useless. Most annoying.

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          • TsukimaVT
            TsukimaVT @Breedneus last edited by

            @Breedneus i have the same fing issue , its so annoying. i hate that i cant turn it off and it pisses me a lot when i need to read something specific in the original language . i think they should add a way to deactivate it and activate it manually.

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            • evgenia111
              evgenia111 last edited by

              I have exactly the opposite problem, before the translation button was included in the menu when you right-click, and recently it disappeared by itself. I had to look for third-party translation apps, but they are not so convenient.

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              • Joh1013
                Joh1013 last edited by

                Same problem, still no solution?

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                  diezi 1 Reply Last reply
                • diezi
                  diezi @Joh1013 last edited by

                  @Joh1013 You can try signing out from your google account and check again

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                  • DeyroK
                    DeyroK last edited by

                    i cant believe that this problem still exist, i cant deactivate it, i´ll consider opera useless right now, it's horribly annoying that every time i go to a subpage in a wiki or something it translates every time, 5 minutes before this the translator traduced HP as horsepower, im from argentina and this happens to me every time i see an English website, i can understand better than with the translation

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @DeyroK last edited by

                      @DeyroK It's not from Opera.

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                      • The-Real-Hawkeye
                        The-Real-Hawkeye last edited by

                        Yes it is.

                        Opera --> Settings --> advanced settings --> Preferred languages

                        Quote:
                        "Let websites know the language you speak. They'll show content in those languages when possible."

                        It seems that by default, the language in your windows setting is used, so I don't even have the option to NOT chose a "preferred language"
                        And after one is chosen by default, I also can't remove that default language, so Opera will happily translate away and translate, for example, German titles of YT videos into English (I'm German, but have windows set to English)

                        Sure, I can switch to German as my preferred language, but then Opera will translate English titles into German.

                        I even watched a podcast where the speech of the youtuber was translated from German to English!

                        I get the idea behind this feature but to make it mandatory is f-ing insane.

                        Ever heard of people who speak more than two languages and might want to read/hear stuff in the original language?

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                          leocg 1 Reply Last reply
                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @The-Real-Hawkeye last edited by

                          @The-Real-Hawkeye Here we go again:

                          That section, present in all Chromium based browsers (and, probably in other browsers too) only tells the site in which language the user prefer to see a page on the web. If, and only if, the site has its page available on that language, it will be used.

                          So if set up languages A, B and C as your preferable ones, if the site is available in language A, it will be used but if the site is not available in language A, language B will be used.

                          Nor Opera nor any browser will translate the pages based on the info on that section of settings page.

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                          • The-Real-Hawkeye
                            The-Real-Hawkeye @leocg last edited by

                            @leocg
                            That's like arguing in court that I didn't kill that guy by pushing him out the window on the 20th floor, it was gravity that killed him when he hit the ground.
                            Yes, technically that's correct but I kinda doubt that a judge would buy it.

                            So yes, technically, Opera doesn't translate the stuff, but Opera tells the site to translate it.
                            So how about giving me the option to tell Opera to stop telling a site to translate anything?

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer @The-Real-Hawkeye last edited by

                              @The-Real-Hawkeye You can try removing all languages from that section.

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @The-Real-Hawkeye last edited by

                                @The-Real-Hawkeye Maybe when Chromium has such option, Opera will have it too.

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                                • The-Real-Hawkeye
                                  The-Real-Hawkeye @leocg last edited by

                                  @leocg
                                  That was the first thing I tried, but unfortunately, while I can remove all additional languages that I might have added, I can't remove the default one.

                                  I guess I'm out of luck then and might have to switch to a different browser...oh well.

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                                  • leocg
                                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @The-Real-Hawkeye last edited by

                                    @The-Real-Hawkeye Other browsers will have the same issue.

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