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Re:Google Open Source Code Search by henry_flower on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:17AM (#22555595)
> based on my IP

heh

in my case I wish it was based on my IP

but for some unbeknownst reason, some components of the page are in Russian. I'm not in Russia; nothing in my browser request indicates I'd like to read Russian.

Re:Google Open Source Code Search by _never_k on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:18AM (#22557105)
I live in the US and have a local US IP. A year or so ago, I made a site for a side project using vanilla HTML. No frameworks, no JS. Every word on the page was in English and could be found in an English dictionary.

When I first stood the site up and tested it, Chrome would always break in as soon as it loaded, with a popup to translate the site into _English_ from _Romanian_!

I was able to suppress this only by turning on every single language hint in META.

Re:Google Open Source Code Search by dewey on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:11AM (#22555939)
Maybe your IP is located in russia according to the geo IP database they are using.