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> I discovered that www.google.com was also accessing my Chrome browser's location, and I can not recall when I said "yes" to any such location prompt This is
by swebs 8y ago
> I discovered that www.google.com was also accessing my Chrome browser's location, and I can not recall when I said "yes" to any such location prompt
This is the worst when traveling through Europe. Cross a border and suddenly all Google services are in a language you don't speak.
- pjmlp 8y agoI really hate that and I do speak quite a few. It is not only the UI language that changes, the search results do as well. Suddenly something that was easy to find becomes a mess of local results with similar names or machine translated, even though I used the original language name.
- philcrump 8y agoNote that this is often done based on your IP address if you've not opted-in. It's often a quirk when using CCC (Chaos Computer Club) IP addresses at events in other countries; you'll be looking at google.de for the first couple of days until google correlates enough location data from people that have opted-in to correct the IP location. On the plus side it means that a personal VPN with no opted-in devices will give you your home-region services (ymmv).
- zaarn 8y agoGoogle likes to ignore the Accept-Language header. Obviously they know better than you and your browser what language they should use!