>Locale settings expressed by the browser are the user's explicit preference, From experience watching other people use computers, most people don't even know

>Locale settings expressed by the browser are the user's explicit preference, From experience watching other people use computers, most people don't even know WTF "locale" is or anything even tangentially related. More than likely they just use whatever was configured by default, which most of the time makes sense for them but it's not a given. Hence, it's unreliable. IP geolocation on the other hand, you can at least assume the broad region where they are connecting from (VPNs and proxies aside).