I'm about to quit YouTube.

Back in the days, YouTube was a great platform, but it is no longer.

I could arrange with these annoying ads for a while, although the ratio of the duration of the video itself and the total duration of the embedded ads is ridiculous, even when ads get skipped as soon as YouTube allows.

Meanwhile they added AI generated translations of the original audio track. This could be a good idea for those who do not understand the language of the audio track.

However, the automated translations are often enough incredibly poor, the voice sounds ugly and not fitting the content. Anyway better for those who do not understand the foreign language.

I am German, German is my first language. Thus YouTube tries to present German AI translations to me, without ever asking whether I need or want this assistance.

In fact, I do understand English quite well, I do understand French and Italian to some extent. But there's no option to select original soundtrack by default.

Why the hell is YouTube forcing me to manually switch the audio track to the original language again and again? It feels as if they intentionally want to annoy me.

I do not want to get annoyed. Thus, I'll cease using YouTube. I'll cancel all my memberships of whatever channel. Thank you, YouTube, you had great times. No thank you for getting so terribly annoying.