The feature is translation. Just say that, OMGUbuntu.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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I swear, we need a version of r/savedyouaclick on Lemmy at some point.
Also, I thought this feature was already released? I've been using it for the better half of this year.
I've been using this feature as an (official) add-on for a few months:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/
I like it a lot. The fact that it translates entirely on my machine, without revealing to some corporation what I'm translating, is indeed a killer feature.
(Now if only we could link headlines that state the key information instead of baiting people into clicks.)
Yeah, my big corporation won't let us use 3rd party big corporations for translations, only our own tool. I assume we know the kind of shit we use the data for, and assume others are just as bad.
It is. But the big plus is it's offline translation, without sending data through network (for privacy concerns and for quick operation). Edit: Oh, just got what you meant. The article title is not descriptive enough. I agree.
Purposefully not descriptive enough. People do it on the R site too even though there's no real benefit or way to see that you're getting people to click through.
That is nice!
Thank you, was hoping there was a “very tl;dr” in the comments.
Glad to finally see translation without the need for an extension. I need to translate pages semi regularly but I try not to install many extensions to avoid fingerprinting.
That translation feature looks very promising, meanwhile I've been using https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist which works in a similar way, but the local translation is a bit difficult to set up, so I've been using google translate as the backend.
But it has other cool features which I need, especially the translation of the whole page, which doesn't work with the official google translate addon here in Korea.
One thing I wish any of those could do is to translate text inside of pictures. For some reason in Korea a lot of text is stored in pictures on https://coupang.com especially detailed explanations about the product I want to buy and then I have to use google translate on my phone with the camera to be able to translate.
Still quite limited amount of languages. I wonder if I can follow the addition of languages somewhere
I just tested it. The only missing feature to me is, auto translating for other pages on the same website.
I really like the idea, as long as there's some sort of quick switch, so you can shift back and forth between original and machine translated versions. Because machine translation can be sometimes great, sometimes awful; and when it's awful, and the language is one that you barely understand (written Catalan and Dutch, for me), sometimes it's actually worth to dig through the original.