Comments on: YouTube Forcing Hindi

By: govind

govind — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:22:43 +0000

why the hell you tube forces the hindi home page….? hell with them. can someone sue them… for not giving the option in the home itself to switch to the language they want…?

By: Dil

Dil — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:20:27 +0000

Changes language from hindi to English Tools >options>languages> English(united states)

By: Sajin

Sajin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:42:45 +0000

@kris,
None of us were saying we do not know of a work-around. It is about the assumption someone made, to apply the locale at a nation level, that is being pointed out as stupid.

See my comment above. A language-locale of en-IN (which means my locale is India and my preferred language is English) is triggering youtube to behave that way, just taking “IN” into consideration and ignoring the “en”.

By: ram

ram — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:18:50 +0000

delete cookies . then search “youtube in english version” and click broadcast link. Now you tube will open in english . goto the bottom of the page . there set county and language . done .

By: kris

kris — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:28:46 +0000

I have no idea how to change it and i am still getting a hindi version, can anyone of you guys help me change the language. Its irriating to see a website in a language i have no idea aabout

By: someone

someone — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:50:51 +0000

I am a south Indian and I was furious when I saw youtube in Hindi, it took me forever to go to the US version and figure out how to change the language. What on earth is half of India’s population going to do now that youtube is in Hindi? Not that I hate Hindi or anything but I hate the fact that it is being shoved down our throats.

By: Sajin

Sajin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:06:53 +0000

Wrote to Microsoft regarding this as Google is anyway not going to respond. Got the below reply.

I believe this behavior is actually keyed off of the language settings of your browser, not based on your IP address.

Check your IE settings under tools->options->languages. You may see a list of languages here, including the HI-IN language/locale combo which you may not be interested in. If so, you should delete these from your browser

I had only en-IN in my settings i.e. English (India) and not hi-IN. Still the Hindi version was coming up. Once I removed en-IN, the Hindi version stopped coming up on Youtube also.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:31 +0000

I completely agree!
What’s with these Google guys? Are they nuts?
I’m a proud Indian but that does not mean I read HIndi well. I took Hindi as a third language in school and it’s a real struggle to navigate through the site. And it’s not immediately apparent as to where you’d go to change the language to English.

By: Sajin

Sajin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:44:47 +0000

i do, but that doesn’t mean i like everything they do

By: Sini

Sini — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:01:29 +0000

i thought u liked microsoft!