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Today, suddenly messed-up "translated" results like these started appearing which apparently were auto-translated from English to German:

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It seems to be this auto-translation feature. Unfortunately, the linked article only explains how websites can prevent being auto-translated, not how users can turn that feature off.

I already checked my Google search preferences and both German and English are set as preferred search result languages. I googled this problem and only found the suggestion to switch my display language (which I don't want and also it would probably just cause the opposite problem, with German results getting auto-translated to English next time) as well as the suggestion to disable the "offer to translate pages" setting in Chrome's settings (which I don't want to disable either, actually, but I tried it, and disabling that didn't change anything).

What can I do? This is really irritating!

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This is not a real solution, but a workaround I came up with for now: I created a Userscript as follows:

// ==UserScript== // @name Untranslate // @namespace https://david-trapp.com/ // @version 2023-12-14 // @description Auto-show original of translated search results // @author David Trapp // @match https://www.google.com/search?* // @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=google.com // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict' function untranslate () { [...document.querySelectorAll('svg[viewBox="0 0 24 24"]')] .reverse() .map(x => x.closest('[data-ved]')?.querySelector('[jsaction]')) .filter(x => x?.innerText.includes('Original ansehen') && !x?.classList.contains('untranslated') && x?.closest('[jscontroller]')) .forEach(x => { x.closest('[jscontroller]').style.display = 'none' // Prevent scroll on .focus() and get rid of the translation box entirely x.classList.add('untranslated') x.click() }) } untranslate() new MutationObserver(untranslate).observe(document.body, { subtree: true, childList: true }) })()

Note that the text Original ansehen needs to be changed based on what language the results are translated to.

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I didn't find a solution neither, so I made a small browser extension. The translation is made on the client side, so it can still be reversed. They seem to ignore users complains on Google forums and still don't offer a option to disable it.

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