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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by danlugo92 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:20PM (#27328300)
Funny, I've been using google since forever in an spanish speaker country and it always correctly (when logged in) shows me results in english (I have it set it to english).
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by CamTin on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:31AM (#27333938)
I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value of the Accept-Language request header regardless of what IP address a request is coming from.
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