This kind of thing is so frustrating. It's one of those features where "somebody got a raise for that", except it's so hostile towards users. Google is absolute

This kind of thing is so frustrating. It's one of those features where "somebody got a raise for that", except it's so hostile towards users. Google is absolutely the worst. Installed an app in one country that's not available in another? Cool now you get a 404 in the play store. In Denver, Google has also at times decided I'm in France, then Hungary, with absolutely no way to fully disable it on sites like YouTube or Google.com (you always get the links and logos, and alt-text for images is still in the "local" language). Play Store shows certain section subtitles in one language, even though Android and everything else is in another. I recently went to buy some books for my kids. The publisher's site detected I was in another country, and hid the book information with a page suggesting I contact a local reseller. Despite that I was just visiting another country at the time. No way to override. Chrome would do the same on install, and offer no way to remove the default search engine from the localized copy. You could change to another one, but not fully delete it. Meanwhile, the entire UI stays in whatever language they decided. So despite using Windows in English, browser in English, etc. etc., Google though it'd be cool to run in Spanish, or Russian, or whatever, based on your IP address. Moronic. Netflix has similar problems - the site does not respect language preferences completely and things like search autocomplete will use the "detected" language. Traveling and contacting support? Cool. Despite every indication you're using English, they'll route you to support in a local language. It's insane. The one thing the HTTP spec got right, Accept-Language, and everyone just ignores it and implements this shitty geo localization + language handling. And they think it's a feature, and every time someone implements this, they probably get a pat on the back and a raise for doing something intelligent. FFS.