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I've always been annoyed at this too, especially when I was using a VPN with an exit node in Finland even though I don't speak Finnish myself. I've asked local
by K0nserv 6y ago
I've always been annoyed at this too, especially when I was using a VPN with an exit node in Finland even though I don't speak Finnish myself.
I've asked localisation experts about this and the answer I've gotten is that `Accept-Langauge` and other signals that are available to provide a hint as to the user's preferred language are teribble. For most people they are incorrectly set to some form of English(en-US, en-GB) even though this is not what the user wants. For this reason the IP/geolocation method is preferred, it also generates false negatives but per the people I've spoken too they are fewer than if you just respect `Accept-Language`.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> For most people they are incorrectly set to some form of English(en-US, en-GB) even though this is not what the user wants. This stopped being true a long time ago. It was once a problem, but not during the last decade, and certainly not now.
- K0nserv 6y agoIf that's the case I guess the industry has not caught up. I had these conversations about 4 years ago FWIW