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I don't know about accuracy, but please, put Accept-Language in front of location/GeoIP. It is frustrating when Google redirects to the country I'm in. I stil
by phn 9y ago
I don't know about accuracy, but please, put Accept-Language in front of location/GeoIP.
It is frustrating when Google redirects to the country I'm in.
I still speak the same languages even if I'm traveling!
- Eridrus 9y agoBut that's the thing, browsers regularly send Accept-Language, if it's overall less accurate than ip geolocation, then it's hard to prefer it.
- phn 9y agoWell, it generally mimics your OS settings, so why is it inaccurate? The worst case is pages displaying in the same language as the rest of my computer.
- Eridrus 9y agoThere's a long tail of mobile browsers out there. I also don't know how many people have OS settings that differ from their real language preference due to poor OS support for their language (e.g. what this article talks about - how many users run en-US to get features that Win10/Android/etc doesn't do well in their language) I mean, there are reasonable arguments either way here IMO and without actual data, e.g. how often users change their language from one or the other, it's hard to know what is better in the long tail. And obviously users should be able to change their preference if we get it wrong.
- gcp 9y agoI also don't know how many people have OS settings that differ from their real language preference due to poor OS support for their language Why would these people be badly served by being sent pages corresponding to their OS language? It's clearly preferable for them over poor localization.
- Gys 9y agoIts unbelievable to me that Google makes this mistake. Very frustrating. Makes me sometimes wonder how accurate their ad system is ? If they do not seem to record such incredibly basic and clear thing as the few languages I can read...