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> Most of the time it's what people want. It really sucks being a frequent traveller, and frequent VPN user and having to REALLY go out of my way just to get s
by caprese 8y ago
> Most of the time it's what people want.
It really sucks being a frequent traveller, and frequent VPN user and having to REALLY go out of my way just to get some useful default behavior.
VPNing through Iceland and now all the Google Flights prices are priced in Icelandic Kroner and not even a clear dropdown to change this preference. Try the URL hack to change the currency code in the get parameters and MAYBE get what I want.
There are so many ways to detect this and assume this preference, and they opt for the most debilitating one. Many services are following this trend, all because of blindly following some A/B test iteration.
Add the human sense back into it.
And god forbid the VPN server you used was used by someone else doing something odd, welcome to CAPTCHA HELL! Where we make all the assumptions about what you want until search is no longer useful for you, but don't let you access search at all by assuming you the current user are the problem based on IP address alone!
- azinman2 8y agoSorry, but you’re an edge case. I wouldn’t expect everything to work perfectly when you’re VPN’ing thru different countries.
- caprese 8y agoOnly an edge case because: There are more and more reasons to VPN through different countries. There are more and more teams using A/B tests and completely removing the human element from their UX design process. A human would say "hey it makes sense to have a currency picker here, thats super easy since we already have this on the backend" The A/B test says "hey nobody taps the currency picker so therefore it must be REDUCING your engagement" When its really completely unrelated.
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoThis was actually solved for languages long ago through NavigatorLanguage but now we've regressed to stupid IP based country lookups. I wonder if NavigatorCurrency.currency should be a thing!