It's appalling how such a powerful company can keep so many things so bad for so long.
"Based on my location" they gave me a French dubbed version of it. No alternative sound track, heck not even subtitles.
I live in Switzerland, we have 4 official languages. I speak one of them: German. Not a word French. The proposed solution: go to apple and ask for your money back. Very poor experience.
Do not even get me going on the "want to use Premium for a month"? I've declined that offer at least 48 times. Did not want it then, do not want it today. Really a pity since there is a lot of cool (not sponsored or monitized) content.
Personally I'm very content with my Google Play Music subscription that also includes YouTube Premium. The music service is no different than Spotify (for me, at least) and I also get ad-free YouTube on all platforms.
It's funny because I have a client right now asking for some advice on how to design a localizable website that can guess default language and I'm realizing that no one has really solved this very well.
The first and most important step is to offer a very very big option up front and center for reverting to English.
This is an extremely annoying thing when traveling.
Or rather the solution I would like is rarely used, I have only found it on some Amazon sites, where you can freely choose the country-level localization (via the domain) and the language-level localization (via a menu) independently.
It was an happy day when I was able to browse the German Amazon in English.
Getting my money back from google is impossible, according to google. Since they could not offer a solution to the language issue, they told me 4 times to complain at apple and try to get my money back from them.
Again: that was not my issue at al. The time it took to dialog with google support was 10 times as expensive as the rent for the movie anyway. I wanted my expectations to be met, was told that it's impossible, so I adjusted my exceptions when being offered to buy / rent from YT to zero.
Really? How about “guessing” that the client’s language preferences are those expressed in the Accept-Language request header?
What about English? Your post seems to be perfectly idiomatic (for this kind of forum) English.
Edit: This is very embarrassing. I had thought English was one of the four official languages.
It feels like YouTube actively doesn't want creators to grow a community on their platform.
Until they stop siding against the creators they will never escape from it.
