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Chrome 59.0 64-bit on Windows 10. Recently there has been a change to the international version of Bing. The URL has been removed from global.bing.com/?FORM=HPCNEN&setmkt=en-us&setlang=en-us to cn.bing.com/?FORM=HPCNEN&setmkt=en-us&setlang=en-us&intlF= (cn denotes China, where I currently am). This is ok but what is really annoying is this: a popup window appears with Chinese translations of every word my cursor is on.

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It appears every time I visit Bing the translator will automatically be turned on (reportedly from microsofttranslator.com). I can temporarily turn it off by clicking a button on the search result page, but it will still be on the next time I use Bing.

Could anyone tell me if there is any way to permanently disable this popup translation window? If necessary, I would also like to know how to permanently ban microsofttranslator.com on my Chrome. Thanks.

PS: this is somewhat related to this problem which however was about IE. For Chrome I couldn't find a similar solution.

Vim
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I resolved this by deleting the translator cookie.

The cookie will be set by the domain you are actually on, but will include a word like "translation" or "language" in the cookie name. Mine was not obvious to find, it was called something like "TranslationMenu".

UPDATE: Since posting this I have noticed that bing now also sets other cookies that will need to also be deleted.

To delete specific cookies in Chrome you can:

  • Go to the window and tab that has the Bing translation pop-ups
  • Right click
  • Click "Inspect"
  • Click "Application" from top menu
  • Click "Cookies" from the left
  • Select the site name/URL
  • Select the cookie
  • Click the "x" next to the "Filter" box (on hover a tooltip will say delete cookie)
Seb
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It is because your country of origin is set to China in Bing settings (top right corner menu). I assume you are using a VPN. Unlike Google, Bing lets you declare your location, which is my favorite feature of Bing and the reason why I use it. You can open Bing settings and choose the United States, but then you will get a very annoying achievement counter on top. My personal preference is British Virgin Islands. Everything is clean and fully functional without any location-specific services.

Arthur Tarasov
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