Which also means not always available inside the US, as Google's geo IP has to be the worst I've experienced. In Denver, they located me as being in France. After a while that got fixed. Now Google thinks I'm in Hungary. Despite multiple requests to fix it, it remains the same over months They could even automate it to some extent just by pinging. Use speed-of-light to determine that my system definitely cannot be in Europe.

A lot of things do not properly de-localize, when you select English or no customization. Menu text, alt text, logos, etc. all remain localized. It's a terrible implementation.

Chrome was (is?) worse. It'd "auto detect" the language to use based on IP, then refuse to remove it once running. So you'd have an English OS, sending "en" in the Accept-Language language header, and Chrome would decide you actually wanted Spanish or Russian or whatever, using .ru sites, etc.

I'm in western Canada, and for a while Google thought I was in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia

google thinks I am in bangladesh

Hey man, we should meet up. I am actually in bangladesh.

And even for those who live in the US, it doesn't seem that you can really download music to listen offline with your favourite player - you're stuck with DRM'd music and their own player.

Thanks, but I'll keep sticking to my good ol' flacs.

If you purchase individual tracks, you can download them as mp3s, no DRM involved. It's only tracks that you have access to via subscription but haven't individually purchased that can't be downloaded (which sort of makes sense, to avoid someone just downloading the entire catalog and then cancelling the subscription).

Are they FUCKING kidding me? Not again!

What, you're suprised about this?