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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 al

by 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.

by pcl 3y ago

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.