@leocg
That was the first thing I tried, but unfortunately, while I can remove all additional languages that I might have added, I can't remove the default one.

I guess I'm out of luck then and might have to switch to a different browser...oh well.

@leocg
That's like arguing in court that I didn't kill that guy by pushing him out the window on the 20th floor, it was gravity that killed him when he hit the ground.
Yes, technically that's correct but I kinda doubt that a judge would buy it.

So yes, technically, Opera doesn't translate the stuff, but Opera tells the site to translate it.
So how about giving me the option to tell Opera to stop telling a site to translate anything?

Yes it is.

Opera --> Settings --> advanced settings --> Preferred languages

Quote:
"Let websites know the language you speak. They'll show content in those languages when possible."

It seems that by default, the language in your windows setting is used, so I don't even have the option to NOT chose a "preferred language"
And after one is chosen by default, I also can't remove that default language, so Opera will happily translate away and translate, for example, German titles of YT videos into English (I'm German, but have windows set to English)

Sure, I can switch to German as my preferred language, but then Opera will translate English titles into German.

I even watched a podcast where the speech of the youtuber was translated from German to English!

I get the idea behind this feature but to make it mandatory is f-ing insane.

Ever heard of people who speak more than two languages and might want to read/hear stuff in the original language?