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> It's a reddit post from a French user who had configured Chrome to automatically translate French (this is not a default behavior)

First of all, the option was not to automatically translate. It was to suggest to automatically translate. Which is the default in Chrome for all languages other than whatever the system language is. Now, the whole thing about "suggest" is that it shouldn't just blindly translate, but ask first. But in this case, apparently, it just translated anyway.

And second, the user specifically said that they disabled translation for French. Which is almost certainly true, as anyone who is not a native English speaker but uses an English OS and browser can testify (you get bugged by Chrome about whether you want to translate every time you open a website in your native language, so after the first 2-3 times you click "Never").




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