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 to (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.
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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)
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.
