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As someone who has traveled and lived abroad the past 10 years, please, never ever use physical location to set the language. Yes, never ever. Why assume everyo
by tvaughan 6y ago
As someone who has traveled and lived abroad the past 10 years, please, never ever use physical location to set the language. Yes, never ever. Why assume everyone at an internet cafe speaks the same language as determined by its physical location? Why assume either person involved in this borrowed tablet situation speaks the predominant language of wherever they happen to be physically at that moment, like a business trip, or vacation? What about VPN's? Use a cookie and Accept-Language, and provide a menu of language choices where each choice is in that language, e.g. Español not Spanish.
- bmn__ 6y agoYou made such a poorly thought out reply, I have already written three drafts in attempts to tackle it and discarded them. I don't have the patience to point out in detail what's wrong with it on a level of discourse that I consider acceptable on HN because it takes an order of magnitude more effort than you put in. I will reconsider and write the proper reply if you really want me to.
- tvaughan 6y agoCould you please post it to https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/?
- XCSme 6y agoI live in the Netherlands, so Google keeps showing me Dutch results first, Dutch videos on YouTube and Dutch ads, even though I don't know Dutch and I did set all my preferences everywhere to English, but it seems to be stubborn to show me Dutch content even though it's just a waste of bandwidth and ad budget.