How to permanently disable Bing translator on Chrome?

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.

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

Posted 2017-08-08T13:49:23.800

Reputation: 111

Are you able to determine if Chrome or Bing is offering the translation? – Ramhound – 2017-08-08T14:32:48.900

@Ramhound it must have been Bing, since Google is strictly blocked in China. Also, the translation only appears within Bing search pages. – Vim – 2017-08-08T14:35:43.290

Well you are using Chrome, so Google must not be entirely blocked, otherwise Chrome wouldn't work. If the translation is being offered by Bing, then your Microsoft Account/Bing settings should be adjusted

– Ramhound – 2017-08-08T14:45:02.597

@Ramhound Chrome can work completely independent of Google. (Perhaps I would like to add that what I meant is all the connections to google.com are blocked, but not Chrome or other google softwares themselves). I didn't sign in to any Microsoft account when I use Bing, and I also couldn't find such Bing settings as related to this translation service. – Vim – 2017-08-08T14:48:57.223

Answers

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

Posted 2017-08-08T13:49:23.800

Reputation: 21

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

Posted 2017-08-08T13:49:23.800

Reputation: 121