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I hate accept language. Google keeps pushing me to the German site, and there seem to be a million places where I might have to configure my computer to make it
by anothercomment 9y ago
I hate accept language. Google keeps pushing me to the German site, and there seem to be a million places where I might have to configure my computer to make it do the right thing. My OS is actually set to English, so I don't know where the German redirect of Google comes from.
What is so difficult about sending me the US site if I go to google.com, and the German site if I go to google.de? That is really the only language selector I need.
Likewise, other pages should simply have an explicit URL for another language, that I can memorize if I prefer that language.
- datenwolf 9y ago> I hate accept language. Did you actually read the article? Because the whole article is basically a rant about how the non-use of the Accept-Language header is causing the trouble you have.
- anothercomment 9y agoI read the article - it mentions that few people configure their browsers properly. I brought up my personal experience as unpleasant, because of the accept headers. Also it is not obvious how to configure the browser properly. I am German living in Germany, but prefer to do my computing in English. Apparently that confuses any web sites. All I want is to have an English site when I type in google.com. If I want to search in German, I can go to google.de. What could be simpler than that? All the other stuff is confusing and annoying. It's also not really "restful"-ish, is it? I think it would preferable to give the same site as a result of opening an URL, not change it depending on mysterious parameters. How is a non-geek even to find out about the accept-headers? Say I know nothing about Computers, go to Google.com and suddenly I am forwarded to Google.de. How do I solve the problem?