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My accept header only contains en-US and en. I tend to get served German content (and Google's especially bad about this). Please, I hope someone hears your co

My accept header only contains en-US and en. I tend to get served German content (and Google's especially bad about this). Please, I hope someone hears your complains and starts fixing things. That issue is highly annoying..

ZirconCode 13y ago
This. I travel a lot, I've had this happen too often. Sometimes they even lock payment methods based on where you are, it's horrible.
masklinn 13y ago
> and Google's especially bad about this Google is a Royal Pain in the Ass on this point. They completely disregard any request configuration and decide on output language based on IP geolocation (which is pretty much always Not What I Want, even more so in multilingual countries such as Belgium or Switzerland[0]), then Chrome "helpfully" suggests translating documents. [0] where it won't even send you something matching your actual geographical location's language, usually sending the country's most common language — dutch in Belgium and german in Switzerland
- nolok 13y ago
  This gets very fun once you start using a vpn from another country.
  - woodson 13y ago
    Indeed, and sometimes strange things happen: ssh tunnel from Australia to server located in California. Geo IP tool [1] reports it's in Fremont, CA. But Google assigns Taiwanese locale.. Outdated/erroneous geolocation database? or did I take a wrong turn somewhere ;-) [1] http://www.geoiptool.com http://www.geoiptool.com
- tonfa 13y ago
  I live in Switzerland and google does follow my accept-languages (en-US,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6,de;q=0.4). When going to google.com in incognito I get google.ch in english which is what I asked.
  - _delirium 13y ago
    I don't get that behavior in Firefox. I have 'en-US' and 'en' as my preferred languages (in that order), set via Preferences->Content->Languages. But when I go to google.com in incognito, I get google.dk in Danish. I guess English is preferred here commonly enough that it's at least listed as one of the two alternate google.dk languages in an easy-to-find place under the search box, along with Faroese. "Google.dk på: Føroyskt English". And if you click "English" it stays with it for the session. No luck if you wanted something else like German, though.
    - tonfa 13y ago
      Ok, I think the trick is to have at least one more in addition to en-US+en (I have a couple more).

ZirconCode 13y ago

This. I travel a lot, I've had this happen too often. Sometimes they even lock payment methods based on where you are, it's horrible.

masklinn 13y ago

> and Google's especially bad about this Google is a Royal Pain in the Ass on this point. They completely disregard any request configuration and decide on output language based on IP geolocation (which is pretty much always Not What I Want, even more so in multilingual countries such as Belgium or Switzerland[0]), then Chrome "helpfully" suggests translating documents. [0] where it won't even send you something matching your actual geographical location's language, usually sending the country's most common language — dutch in Belgium and german in Switzerland

nolok 13y ago
This gets very fun once you start using a vpn from another country.
- woodson 13y ago
  Indeed, and sometimes strange things happen: ssh tunnel from Australia to server located in California. Geo IP tool [1] reports it's in Fremont, CA. But Google assigns Taiwanese locale.. Outdated/erroneous geolocation database? or did I take a wrong turn somewhere ;-) [1] http://www.geoiptool.com http://www.geoiptool.com
tonfa 13y ago
I live in Switzerland and google does follow my accept-languages (en-US,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6,de;q=0.4). When going to google.com in incognito I get google.ch in english which is what I asked.
- _delirium 13y ago
  I don't get that behavior in Firefox. I have 'en-US' and 'en' as my preferred languages (in that order), set via Preferences->Content->Languages. But when I go to google.com in incognito, I get google.dk in Danish. I guess English is preferred here commonly enough that it's at least listed as one of the two alternate google.dk languages in an easy-to-find place under the search box, along with Faroese. "Google.dk på: Føroyskt English". And if you click "English" it stays with it for the session. No luck if you wanted something else like German, though.
  - tonfa 13y ago
    Ok, I think the trick is to have at least one more in addition to en-US+en (I have a couple more).