YouTube auto dubbed

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Subject: Ongoing Issue with YouTube Auto-Dubbing in Brave Mobile Browser

To the Brave Support Team,

I am writing to report and seek a possible resolution for a frustrating experience when watching YouTube videos through the Brave mobile browser.

The Problem:

Whenever I watch YouTube videos using Brave mobile in normal (mobile) mode, the audio automatically plays in a dubbed version — often in a local or regional language — instead of the original audio (usually English or the language of the creator).

The “Audio track” selection option that normally appears in the YouTube app or desktop browser is completely missing in Brave’s mobile mode.

I am forced to watch videos in the dubbed version with no option to switch the audio back to the original.

This issue does not happen in the YouTube app, and it can be temporarily fixed in Brave by manually enabling “Desktop Site” mode, where the audio menu reappears. But this workaround is inconvenient and not ideal for regular viewing.

Attempts Made to Fix:

I have already tried the following:

Changing language settings in both Brave and my Google account to English.

Clearing cookies and cache for YouTube.

Using Brave Beta to check for any experimental features or fixes.

Trying different regions via VPN — this works sometimes, but not consistently.

Using YouTube in desktop mode — which helps, but is clunky and impractical on mobile screens.

What I’m Requesting:

Can Brave explore whether this issue stems from how the browser presents itself to YouTube (user agent or mobile headers)?

Is it possible for Brave to request YouTube to serve the original audio track instead of a dubbed one in mobile mode?

Or, can Brave add a setting or override that forces YouTube to show the full player (with audio track options) on mobile?

This is a usability issue that affects the viewing experience significantly. I love using Brave for privacy and ad-blocking, but this audio problem is forcing me to return to the YouTube app for proper playback control — something I’d prefer to avoid.

Thank you for your time, and I hope this can be investigated further or passed on to the relevant team.

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It’s so annoying I hope brave team solve it soon

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Probably only solvable with an extension atm;

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Facing same Issue. There should be an option to change audio language.

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same issue here,

workaround-

go to you tube settings and choose your language from the menu (right now it is english by default), this will play the video in your language.

but this wil also change the yt languange in browser.

but update needed from brave to let us select audio track.

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Thank you so much for bringing this up. This drives me nuts.

The multi-audio option exists on the app but not on Brave for Android.

On my phone, it does work to switch languages in the main menu but it’s annoying.

It’d be better indeed to at least have the same option as the app provides to choose the audio track, and even better to have the original audio by default if that’s even possible.

Thank you again for describing the problem so perfectly and thanks to anyone who might working on this.

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Hi,
Your post gave me so much hope, but I then realized that add-ons aren’t available on the Android version of Brave.

That add-on sounds great though. I do not want YouTube to automatically translate titles and audio, this is so annoying.

TY for linking the extension.

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The other option is just hide dubbed youtube videos from the homepage;

youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-grid-renderer.style-scope:has-text(Auto-dubbed)