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Re:Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address by antoineMoPa on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:33PM (#14175730)
Polyglot problem: when Google Chrome always asks you to translate the page but you just want to read it in the original language and you are too lazy to disable the popup.
Re:Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address by laaph on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:36PM (#14186790)
I had this with facebook. I'd like to see things in their original language, but I'm not perfectly fluent in two languages that I'd like to see in their original language, so I have the choice to "autotranslate" or not have a translation button at all.

I turned off the autotranslate button because one day I was reading a facebook post that made no sense at all, and it turned out it was a very poor translation and facebook didn't show me the original text. But now, I don't even get the button for translate, even though my spanish isn't the best and sometimes it's very helpful for me. So it goes...

Re:Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address by int_19h on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:51AM (#14177216)
Although after you do it a few times, it asks if you want to permanently disable translation for that language.
Re:Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address by rochellle on Saturday April 22, 2017 @09:06PM (#14175837)
Also, this happens when the page isn't even in a foreign language, but the majority of words are not dictionary words, and there's a sparse overlap of one or two words which statistically correlate with a misspelling of a similar words in some language outside your currently chosen locale.
Re:Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address by slededit on Sunday April 23, 2017 @12:48AM (#14176563)
How often does that happen to you?