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This used to work back in the old days, but more and more sites decides to ignore this a few years ago. The reasoning is that the percentage of users with misco
by codeflo 3y ago
This used to work back in the old days, but more and more sites decides to ignore this a few years ago. The reasoning is that the percentage of users with misconfigured browsers (who don't know how to fix this and also don't know how to click a "change language" button on the website) is bigger than the percentage of users who intentionally use a language that's different from their geolocated one. So the ad-revenue maximizing choice is to ignore the user's configuration.
- Scoundreller 3y agoThat’s why I like travelling: I’ll get all my web content in English (the language I do know) and the ads in a language I don’t know (perfect).
- yread 3y agoIt used to work on Facebook to just change your location to a weird country and you would get their advertisements. Or none if there weren't any like for North Korea. Then I got banned on Airbnb (where I used Facebook login) because they thought I'm from North Korea and they would break sanctions by renting me a bnb...