bumping!
"Disable For: English" is _never_ remembered"

On Jan 14, 3:29 am, TSR wrote:
> Thanks for your input Josh.
>
> Unfortunately, I have all the Google cookies in the world on my system
> already (.com, .co.jp, .fr, groups.google.com...) but it doesn't help.
> Cleared them (from cache) completely to have fresh copies too, no
> changes whatsoever when visiting websites with the Google "Translate
> Bar"...  "Disable For: English" is _never_ remembered.
> Thanks for your support.
>
> TSR
>
> On Jan 13, 11:45 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > We've been able to reproduce this bug and we are aware of the problem.
>
> > The issue is, the Translate Element, which these sites have embedded
> > on their sites, stores its state in your Google cookie.  But
> > unfortunately if you do not already have a Google cookie, it is not
> > able to issue you one.
>
> > We're working on fixing it, but it's unfortunately not as easy as you
> > might expect.  As a workaround, if you visitwww.google.combefore
> > clicking the button to disable the element for a particular language,
> > it should issue you a cookie, and when you click the button the
> > setting should stick.
>
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> > Best,
> > Josh Estelle
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Google Translate
>
> > On Dec 18 2010, 7:08 am, Sébastian wrote:
>
> > > Or isohunt.com... Same old same old,
> > > I even swear in discussions like these in the past. And you never
> > > guess... Yep, they were very fast saying I was a bad boy. But
> > > troubleshooting our real problem... Hahahahaha.. No way. They rule the
> > > world, and you can't deny it. I'm sorry.
>
> > > On 18 dec, 07:49, Jukka wrote:
>
> > > > On 29 marras, 03:42, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote:
>
> > > > > thanks a lot for your feedback.
> > > > > we will look into this.
>
> > > > Would really be an nice change, is you instead of just looking into it
> > > > actually _did_ something to it. How hard can that be? I mean, this
> > > > issue has been a constant problem for years. I do not use the google
> > > > toolbar, and manage English just fine on my own, but some web pages
> > > > just insist on the Google translate (e.g.http://www.zipp.com) even if
> > > > I return to the same page where I just visited and clicked to disable
> > > > the freaking thing. Force feeding the thing to users who do not want
> > > > it is really annoying and I sure cannot see any useful purpose it
> > > > serves. After all, if one really wants to have the page translated,
> > > > there is a tool for it, no need to bug the user constantly.
>
> > > > Please, make that thing go away and really stay away.
>
> > > > Jukka- Hide quoted text -
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