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I guess this begs the question of why this is so widespread? Is it common for users to have the language preferences of their browsers misconfigured? If so th
by nickcw 6y ago
I guess this begs the question of why this is so widespread?
Is it common for users to have the language preferences of their browsers misconfigured?
If so then I can see why this is common practice.
If not then we should stop using the users' location.
Are there any stats anywhere on how likely a user is to have their language preference configured in their browser / OS correctly?
- ACS_Solver 6y agoMy feeling is that it's very rare for people to configure their preferred language in the browser. It's a setting buried somewhere in the menus, and anecdotally I would say most people don't even know such a setting exists. I suspect that, for the vast majority of people, their preferred language list is the default, which is then one entry, the same as the browser's UI language.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> Is it common for users to have the language preferences of their browsers misconfigured? At the last millennium it was. Just like some people are still complaining that HTTPS is too CPU intensive, because it used to require a visible share of the cycles of a 486.