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This is always infuriating, because browsers send the Accept-Language header, that these sites just ignore.

• estebank 2y ago
  The thing I don't get is that there are plenty of Googlers traveling internationally. They've been aware of the problem for over a decade now, yet it persists. If I'm traveling from Spain to Poland with a browser set to use UK-English, why would the site immediately switch to Polish? It makes no sense that this common corner case isn't addressed at all after all this time. At the very least sites that do this should detect that there's a mismatch between expected language given geolocation and the header and have a toast notification about how to change the language settings back manually.
  • ch4s3 2y ago
    Just imagine the mess in Belgium!
    • przemub 2y ago
      Actually I can imagine that multilingualism would force the devs to rely on Accept-Language instead of GeoIP. Talking out of my arse here :)
      • ch4s3 2y ago
        One imagines the the large number of Indian and Chinese H1B workers at large tech companies are multi-lingual or at least bilingual.