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In Ubers case, the app works well when you travel. Not sure why LinkedIn would need that, if that is your question.

by mavelikara 3y ago

eptcyka 3y ago
The last thing I want is my phone or apps on it to automatically change locale depending on the GPS location.
- pcl 3y ago
  Google Flights does this. It’s so frustrating. It displays prices in local currency, no matter how many times you go to the menu and pick a currency. And it always uses local calendar alignment, which is “fun”.
  - gruturo 3y ago
    A few years ago I moved to Germany, not speaking a word of the local language. Imagine my joy when every google site helpfully switched to German, ignoring my browser's accept-language. Thankfully some googler must have been also annoyed by this at some point, so there is a somewhat little-known URL: google.com/ncr (No Country Redirect) which will revert everything to US English. Doesn't help if you wanted to default to any different locale, but it was perfect for me. Thank you unknown annoyed googler.
  - gruez 3y ago
    >It displays prices in local currency, no matter how many times you go to the menu and pick a currency. Works fine for me, including when I'm in a foreign country and I need to change back to my home currency. Are you sure you're not disabling cookies or whatever?
    - pcl 3y ago
      Nope — happens when I’m logged into my Google account even. I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be governed by any privacy-concerning cookies.
      - gruez 3y ago
        > I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), Okay I retested with a EU VPN and I can confirm it's due to you declining the cookies. If you decline cookies and change currencies, it adds your desired currency to the url as a query parameter, so if you navigate to flights.google.com again you lose it. >but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be governed by any privacy-concerning cookies. In other words: you: "don't store cookies and data about me" google: "ok, we won't store cookies and data about you" you: "why didn't you store my currency?" Actually if you read the cookie prompt that you declined, it specifically mentions that they use cookies for "personalization" purposes, and that if you decline they will not use cookies for that purpose. Storing your desired currency arguably counts as "personalization" purposes, so I don't really see the issue here.
        pcl 3y ago
        Bundling basic app functionality with do-not-track prefs is user-hostile. And, as I said, I’m logged in when this happens, proving that it is intentionally user-hostile, since they actually have the tracking data they need on the backend but are too lazy or organizationally incompetent to assemble it.
- marticode 3y ago
  In the case of Uber, the service they provide is highly dependent on where you are.
  - eptcyka 3y ago
    Whats the point? I will still want to know the price in both my and the local currency in the language I know.
    - gruez 3y ago
      If Uber offers different services depending on the locale, then it needs to dynamically load/select from different views available. It's not just language translations. Sibling commenters have mentioned all the different views/functionalities that vary by region: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
    - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
      In India, for example, you can call a tuktuk or a scooter, which you cannot do in the States. Not to mention all the different localized taxes, fees, regulations etc
    - mavelikara 3y ago
      This is not meant to be disrespectful, but it looks like you have not yet traveled to a location where Uber offers a service that is very different from the one they offer where you live. I live in the US, use Uber, and have used Uber in India. The service offerings were very different in the two countries. I was glad that the same Uber app I used in the US, connected to my credit card, works well in India without needing a new app to be installed.
  - kolme 3y ago
    Localisation means in this context the translations, date and number formatting, currency, etc. So no, that doesn't change depending on where you are.
eddyfromtheblok 3y ago
I still get a few ads and configuration settings in Spanish I believe because I created an Uber account at an airport in Mexico.

In Ubers case, the app works well when you travel. Not sure why LinkedIn would need that, if that is your question.

eptcyka 3y ago

The last thing I want is my phone or apps on it to automatically change locale depending on the GPS location.

pcl 3y ago
Google Flights does this. It’s so frustrating. It displays prices in local currency, no matter how many times you go to the menu and pick a currency. And it always uses local calendar alignment, which is “fun”.
- gruturo 3y ago
  A few years ago I moved to Germany, not speaking a word of the local language. Imagine my joy when every google site helpfully switched to German, ignoring my browser's accept-language. Thankfully some googler must have been also annoyed by this at some point, so there is a somewhat little-known URL: google.com/ncr (No Country Redirect) which will revert everything to US English. Doesn't help if you wanted to default to any different locale, but it was perfect for me. Thank you unknown annoyed googler.
- gruez 3y ago
  >It displays prices in local currency, no matter how many times you go to the menu and pick a currency. Works fine for me, including when I'm in a foreign country and I need to change back to my home currency. Are you sure you're not disabling cookies or whatever?
  - pcl 3y ago
    Nope — happens when I’m logged into my Google account even. I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be governed by any privacy-concerning cookies.
    - gruez 3y ago
      > I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), Okay I retested with a EU VPN and I can confirm it's due to you declining the cookies. If you decline cookies and change currencies, it adds your desired currency to the url as a query parameter, so if you navigate to flights.google.com again you lose it. >but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be governed by any privacy-concerning cookies. In other words: you: "don't store cookies and data about me" google: "ok, we won't store cookies and data about you" you: "why didn't you store my currency?" Actually if you read the cookie prompt that you declined, it specifically mentions that they use cookies for "personalization" purposes, and that if you decline they will not use cookies for that purpose. Storing your desired currency arguably counts as "personalization" purposes, so I don't really see the issue here.
      - pcl 3y ago
        Bundling basic app functionality with do-not-track prefs is user-hostile. And, as I said, I’m logged in when this happens, proving that it is intentionally user-hostile, since they actually have the tracking data they need on the backend but are too lazy or organizationally incompetent to assemble it.
marticode 3y ago
In the case of Uber, the service they provide is highly dependent on where you are.
- eptcyka 3y ago
  Whats the point? I will still want to know the price in both my and the local currency in the language I know.
  - gruez 3y ago
    If Uber offers different services depending on the locale, then it needs to dynamically load/select from different views available. It's not just language translations. Sibling commenters have mentioned all the different views/functionalities that vary by region: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
    In India, for example, you can call a tuktuk or a scooter, which you cannot do in the States. Not to mention all the different localized taxes, fees, regulations etc
  - mavelikara 3y ago
    This is not meant to be disrespectful, but it looks like you have not yet traveled to a location where Uber offers a service that is very different from the one they offer where you live. I live in the US, use Uber, and have used Uber in India. The service offerings were very different in the two countries. I was glad that the same Uber app I used in the US, connected to my credit card, works well in India without needing a new app to be installed.
- kolme 3y ago
  Localisation means in this context the translations, date and number formatting, currency, etc. So no, that doesn't change depending on where you are.

eddyfromtheblok 3y ago

I still get a few ads and configuration settings in Spanish I believe because I created an Uber account at an airport in Mexico.