Source code of YouTube Anti Translate for Firefox. Forked from https://github.com/zpix1/yt-anti-translate
Version 1.5.14
- Updates to CSS selectors to work with YouTube
- Improves support for turning extension on and off without reloading the page (removes bugs)
This release incorporates fixes from NetStranger. Thanks!
Version 1.5.7 mostly follows the upstream version, for example removes the description untranslation, because it was buggy. It also adds support for turning the addon on and off without reloading.
This fork for Firefox used to include a number of Firefox specific fixes in version 1.5.2, because that YouTube sent a different website HTML to Firefox and Chrome. Also the original idea of injecting the script to run in the page javascript namespace didn't work in Firefox reliably. That is why version 1.5.2 used a different mechanism to get to the ytInitialPlayerResponse javascript object on YT.
I was annoyed by YouTube changing video titles to poorly user-translated versions, so I made this chrome extension to retrive original titles and change them back.
It is much easier to use than it's analogs (as YoutubeAutotranslateCanceler, because it does not require any YouTube API keys or addition userscript extensions).
Just install it from firefox extensions store (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-anti-translate/?utm_source=github).
TLDR: Needs to be handled better by original Chrome version authors, in my opinion. Then I'll add it.
Longer explanation:
There were some complaints that the extension doesn't work with the DeArrow extension which also replaces video titles.
The Chrome version "fixed" it by using :not(.cbCustomTitle) in their CSS selectors for video titles. Presumably to filter videos which are handled by DeArrow, and only untranslate videos where DeArrow didn't do anything. However, this approach doesn't really work.
As for any videos served with a translated title (here Russian), which is then formatted by DeArrow, there may exist an untranslated title (English). And the Chrome YT Anti Translate extension sees that there is cbCustomTitle class element, which renders the visible title, and doesn't touch it.
Below, hidden, there is the element YT Anti Translate edits, and fetches the original English title into.
- The untranslated title from the original author (fetched by YT Anti Translate)?
- The nicely formatted version (by DeArrow) of the translated version (by YouTube) of the title?
We can also see there is a timing (?) bug between two extensions, as when I load the page, with YT Anti translate on and DeArrow fully on, there remains the translated in Russian title. Alternatively (would need investigation) it could be that DeArrow looks in the title attribute of the <span id="video-title"> element, which is the Russian title (intentionally) and not its innerText, which is the English title.
Furthermore, if the YT Anti Translate is off and DeArrow is on when page is loaded, the DeArrow's "Show original details" button which appears on hover, switches between formatted and unformatted versions of the Russian title. If then YT Anti Translate is reenabled (and English title fetched), the Russian title is hidden and the English title viewed only after the DeArrow's "Show original details" button is clicked. Further clicks alternate between unformatted and formatted versions of the English titles. That means that turning YT Anti Translate after DeArrow ran its scripts does not change the visible title of the video.
Third case (to have it complete here), if YT Anti Translate is on and DeArrow off when page is loaded, the relevant markup looks like this:
(Off/on from their popups (not from about:addons), that's why DeArrow still injected a hidden element.)
If then DeArrow is turned on, and its "Show original details" button pressed, it toggles formatted/unformatted English titles normally (not reverting to the Russian title).
So, this may be a timing bug. If DeArrow runs after YT Anti Translate has run, all this appears correctly.
The page in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26hmoyLbJ0 (old Pewdiepie video, which the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC7gdOUvsAc video in screenshot appears as a recommendation to) and YT language changed to Russian (same config as original author of the Chrome extension). Good combination for testing, as his videos from 2018-19 mostly all have a translated title.