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		spaniard89277 on July 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube: Community contributions will be discontin... There was no option to disable them, and if you are multilingual it's a PITA. Sometimes I became so annoyed that I closed YT. It's not the same effort for my brain to keep up listening to spanish, english, french or portuguese. And I WANT TO KNOW what I'm getting into. If I want subtitles or translations I'll activate it myself, thanks. Sometimes I browse for a topic and I need a native POV out of it, but it became so difficult because YT just treats you like if you were stupid so yo loose time going back and forth. IDK, maybe there was some option to manage it, but it was very well hidden in menus that I couldn't find it.

freeone3000 on July 31, 2020 [–]

Toolbar in the bottom right, subtitle icon, disable.

spaniard89277 on July 31, 2020 | [–]

That's only for subtitles, and somehow if you go into another video, you have to do it again.

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