: Am I violating AdSense TOS by allowing Google Translate widget to translate into unsupported languages? DETAILS I want to use a Google Translate widget/plugin on my website. The website is written

@LarsenBagley505

I ended up emailing Google.

MY LETTER

If my website is written in English, but I allow my visitors to
temporarily translate the page using the Google Translate tool, do I need to remove
unsupported adsense languages from the Google Translate tool? Since the
translation is a temporary one I assume that the language is primarily
in English and thus not in violation of AdSense TOS. Am I wrong?
Thanks for your time.

THEIR RESPONSE

Hi,

If the site is written in English, this will be fine.

UPDATE

I also posted this question on the Google Adsense forum.
User Luzie added that


You'd violate the ToS if you'd let the search engines index automatic
translations (they're deemed low quality and a bad user experience if
presented as "content") - else I'd restrict ads to allowed languages.


UPDATE2

According to Google Translate Help support.google.com/translate/?hl=en

The automatically translated version of your web page will not be
indexed by search engines

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