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Tangentially related but when I have lived in countries where English isn't the first language I'm amazed how many big companies ignore the language set in my w
by wdutch 4y ago
Tangentially related but when I have lived in countries where English isn't the first language I'm amazed how many big companies ignore the language set in my web requests (English) and serves me content in the county's native language. Google for example and they really hide the button to chsngethe language.
I suppose they assume a lot of people have devices incorrectly configured to English but its very frustrating for a tech literate person who travels a lot.
- weberer 4y agoGoogle really sucks with this. It used to be a lot worse a couple years ago when you had to navigate the dumb GDPR thing before you could see the language selector. Believe it or not, its the main thing that pushed me to DuckDuckGo. Anyway, a nice trick is to append ?hl=en to the query string of any Google site and it will force it to be in English.
- glandium 4y agoOn the opposite end of the spectrum, I live in Japan, and Youtube has shown me ads for very local stuff in some remote parts of the US.