YouTube No Translation
Shares rank 39 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Turns off YouTube's automatic AI dubs and translated titles. It works on YouTube pages, but people report automatic translation still appears on embedded videos.
Turns off YouTube's automatic AI dubs and translated titles. It works on YouTube pages, but people report automatic translation still appears on embedded videos.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Turns off automatic dubs and translations
“To avoid YouTube auto-dubbing I use https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/”
Comment from 28 Dec 2025 in “Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results” “to automatically turn off the robodubs and translated titles”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “End of Japanese community” “automatically turns off the robodubs and translated titles”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “End of Japanese community” - Comment from 7 Nov 2025 in “Gmail AI gets more intrusive”
- Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled”
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| YouTube No TranslationThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago”
“To avoid YouTube auto-dubbing I use https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/”
“It works when you watch video on youtube, when it's embedded on other site I get the automatic translation.”
“"YouTube No Translation" addon fixes the issue”
“can be used to force the audio track, which is very helpful”
“Quite happy with an extension which disables the feature”
“to automatically turn off the robodubs and translated titles”
“automatically turns off the robodubs and translated titles”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.