> Why use hreflang? I’m not a web dev so I might be missing something obvious… but… Why the obsession with binding languages to a url (resource)? There’s an

> Why use hreflang? I’m not a web dev so I might be missing something obvious… but… Why the obsession with binding languages to a url (resource)? There’s an accept-language http header that will respect the user’s languages in desired order… I can understand you as a user might want to be able to overwrite it for a specific site so that they can workaround a badly translated site, but even for that purpose you can use a simple opt-in cookie… But why attach it to a resource (url)??? Now when I share the url it will not respect the language preferences of the one I share it too… And even if you wish to be able to share a specific language version of a website, why not have these as an extra layer that redirect with a cookie setting that language and then just use again the regular url… Honestly this boggles my mind… why why… can web developers and their managers please respect http standards… with the german trial case we might see some traction with DNT, so there’s that. Please also respect my language setting. Fun (read supper annoying) fact: ever worse is trying to use ip to map it to location and then deduce language like that… I live in Belgium and how many times I’ve received a French version of a site is mind boggling… sorry very sorry, but I’m not fluent in French. I can survive in it, but I don’t want to consume websites in it if I don’t have to.. if you actually would respect my browser settings (accept-language) you would know better… zzz