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Geo-location by IP is one of most horrid abomination ever created. Try a road trip in Europe, every single day google believes I speak/read/understand a differ
by xxs 13y ago
Geo-location by IP is one of most horrid abomination ever created.
Try a road trip in Europe, every single day google believes I speak/read/understand a different language. If that's not bad enough, living in a country where one doesn't speak the local language basically means not using the service.
Stuff like .../?hl=en may help indeed (but it has to be put manually.
- Ironlink 13y agoI am unable to recreate this problem. My Firefox sends the following Accept-Language: "en-us,en;q=0.8,sv-se;q=0.5,sv;q=0.3". When I go to Google.com in a new private browsing context, I am redirected to Google.se with English language. When I go straight to Google.se in a new private browsing context, the page is in English.
- junto 13y agoTo be fair. I've just rechecked and you are right. I have the same behavior in Germany. Maybe someone is listening! Ads though. Still in German. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm even more blind to them in the wrong language. I guess that is a good thing!
- unsignedint 13y agoProblem is a lot of site operators don't differentiate location vs. language. As someone living in the US who speaks English and Japanese, I often get annoyed by the fact changing the language would affect feature set to match the language and vice-versa. I almost want something like ja-US and en-JP!
- gman99 13y agoJust go to the site: http://www.google.com/ncr http://www.google.com/ncr (I assume it stands for "No Country Recognition" but I'm unsure of that). Visit it once and I believe it stores a permanent cookie on your computer telling google not to re-direct you to a country specific site. Been using it for about 10yrs now as it annoys me when I get re-directed when accessing sites over a vpn.