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I can't even read this because of their stupid geo redirect. It redirects me to https://www.uber.com/de/newsroom/uber-health/ https://www.uber.com/de/newsroom/
by socialist_coder 9y ago
I can't even read this because of their stupid geo redirect.
It redirects me to https://www.uber.com/de/newsroom/uber-health/ https://www.uber.com/de/newsroom/uber-health/ which gives a 404 error.
God, I hate geo redirects. I wish you could set some "don't do geo based redirects" option in your browser that sites would then respect.
- autotune 9y agoUnfortunately this happens on the backend, for instance as a built-in feature of a CDN or DNS routing based on your IP, so the only real way around it is to use a VPN that'll let you switch countries and show a different IP address when browsing the web. It's not like a user agent string that can be modified or anything like that.
- netsharc 9y agohttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac... . Browsers send them. But nah, let's be too clever and offer localized content based on IP! No localized content? Enjoy the 404!
- netsharc 9y agoGeo redirects... they make me furious! I remember reading in the Google Forum from an American who flew to Kuwait (War contractor?) and when they loaded up Google on their laptop, it's in Arabic. They were furious...