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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It provides pretty good translations, but it's not particularly good for privacy. Obviously it's better than Google, but their privacy policy isn't great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My main issue is they want credit card info to get an API key, which is required if you want to use it through (properly integrated) addons or whatever. The translations are pretty much magic though. Really good results most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The API is also the only way to have it be private as well, as one of the perks is that all your entries get deleted.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also mozilla.github.io/translate which is Firefox Translate but as a website like Google Translate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

LibreTranslate is an option if you're looking for something open source.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Translate You features LibreTranslate, Lingva, DeepL, MyMemory, Reverso, and SimplyTranslate.
While I can't speak for any of them, I think that all of those should be safe being that Translate You is FOSS, and their idealogy is "No Ads, no trackers, just You"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lingva is an alternative frontend for google translate if you're open to that, this is one instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At the moment, DeepL is the only option for accurate and convenient language translation.

I wish there were others, but everything else sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The SimplyTranslate front end has many languages, translate engines selectable: Google | DeepL (Testing) | ICIBA | Reverso | LibreTranslate. Some instances are Tor-friendly, even onion. The project page seems to be https://codeberg.org/SimpleWeb/SimplyTranslate

Refusing to use Google is just common sense. LibreTranslate itself is decent (at least not Google), except a website hosting it may have some opaque JS or Google things (Font, Analytics, TagManagers, etc.)

Either way, translation can’t be super-private in general. For example, if you use it to write a private message or love letter in a foreign language… even including real names and physical addresses…

Also, metadata like “a Danish-speaker is reading this German text about X” can’t be hidden, and if the language pair is uncommon and/or if text to be translated is specialized (not generic), the engine provider may easily guess “this request and that request yesterday may be from the same user”, etc. if they want to. A sufficiently powerful “attacker” might de-anonymize you, helped by other info about you, already gathered. In practice, maybe not a big concern, if you’re just translating generic, non-sensitive text, not showing your real IP, and clearing cookies frequently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Translate You on Graphene. Works great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Graphene gang

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft translator exists. But is is also a MAGMA company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Make America Great" .. My Ass!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this interpretation. But for anyone curious, this is the new "FAANG" abbreviation.

Meta
Apple
Google (Alphabet)
Microsoft
Amazon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

FAANG

Facebook Apple Amazon Nicrosoft Google???

Oh it's 'Netflix' apparently, would have thought Microsoft would have been waaaaaay bigger than Netflix.