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On a similar topic, does anyone know a translation service that does not require JavaScript?
Might not be something that you exactly need, but might help you:
- https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator if you are on Android, it is fully offline, once you download an translation models. Also it provides option to turn on LibreTranslate-compatible server, so other programs that supports this API can call this servee.
- https://github.com/you-apps/TranslateYou — Multi-service client, can translate from many different service, including ability to provide your own addresses to other (or your own) instances.
- You can selfhost earlier mentioned libretranslate https://libretranslate.com/, it is relatively easy to do. Translation quality quite good, but it's model are somewhat really bad with single word translations. If you want to translate mostly single words, then some dictionary solution should be preferred.
- If you are on Linux, you can check out https://flathub.org/de/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote — it's primary function is to deal with text-to-speech and vise versa, but it also provides translator. Translation models here are based on Mozilla models that you might had used in Firefox.
- Also Linux app: https://flathub.org/de/apps/dev.ters.LocalTranslate, it also uses Mozilla models under the hood.
Thank you, libertranslante may be an option. I need a translation service to point my kobo to.
The kobo browser as never been updated and does not work with gtranslate any more. DDG has a translation service, but only of you use the JS enabled version.
From quick test, LibreTranslate UI can't work without JavaScript... Hm, then maybe you can look for Mozhi? https://codeberg.org/aryak/mozhi I tested one instance that I found, https://mozhi.adminforge.de/, with disabled JavaScript via Ublock, and seems it worked!
Can't help with this exactly but just wanted to point out that DDG has chosen to censor search results. The results they were censoring was, granted, for good reasons. But the issue is that if the founders are making personal choices on what should and shouldn't be shown in search results, you can't know what else they may be censoring or what they'll decide to censor in the future.
Source? I found they removed the Yandex index, censored Russian propaganda...
That's it? That's your take on DDG or there is something substantial?
Is there even a search engine that is truly uncensored?
I'm seeing the same as you but can't help further.
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