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<off topic rant> What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all
by makeitsuckless 12y ago
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What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language.
It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one.
This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with the name "because_fuck_you()".
To add insult to injury, this does not just affect the UI language, but also the content, functionality and sometimes even navigation, and not always in the straightforward relationship between language and content you may expect.
And I'm not even one of those poor souls that lives in a multilingual country...
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- tobeportable 12y agoLiving in trilingual country here. I suggest u to try google.com/ncr to get English google wherever you are in the world.
- addandsubtract 12y agoI use https://encrypted.google.com/ https://encrypted.google.com/ which lets me stay on the english version.
- chris-at 12y agoThat works for search but do you have one for maps and their other sites (like blogger)?
- IanCal 12y agoChecking only with curl here, they seem to respect the "Accept-Language" header. Have you had a look at the requests that are being sent?
- chris-at 12y agoThis is why I never type google.com into my browser. So annoying. My current workaround is a search provider with https://www.google.com/search?num=50&tbs=li:1&fg=1&gws_rd=cr&q= http://ready.to/search/en/?sna=goo-v&prf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fnum%3D50%26amp%3Btbs%3Dli%3A1%26amp%3Bfg%3D1%26amp%3Bgws_rd%3Dcr%26amp%3Bq%3D&in=utf&ou=ono&mod=pn http://ready.to/search/en/?sna=goo-v&prf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g...