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I noticed this on Youtube: i keep getting more and more Indian Videos, for reasons unknown to me. I am not really "pissed off" by this, but a lot of these video

I noticed this on Youtube: i keep getting more and more Indian Videos, for reasons unknown to me. I am not really "pissed off" by this, but a lot of these videos are just hard to understand for me, so it feels like a bad UX for me. What really annoys me is that Google in general is pushing German content into my face, despite the fact that my OS, my browser-settings, my Google profiles and my search queries are 100% English. Just the fact that i am physically located in Germany seems to be enough for them. I started switching to Google-alternative products almost 1.5 years ago because i am tired of them.

lopmotr 7y ago
This whole language choosing thing seems to be an unsolved problem. It would be great if users could specify their preferred languages somehow in their browser/OS and websites and apps could respect that. But I guess users won't set it properly so websites will try to second-guess them. You used to be able to do something like google.com/ncr to get US English Google but that doesn't seem to work anymore :( Too many people thinking they know what they want, I guess.
- vezycash 7y ago
  >Too many people thinking they know what they want, I guess. ...what WE want... I blame Apple. They started the trend and everyone copied.
- viceroyalbean 7y ago
  >It would be great if users could specify their preferred languages somehow in their browser/OS and websites and apps could respect that There is[1], but no one uses it. At this point its primary purpose is probably just browser fingerprinting. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...