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Re:Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the ... by kevincox on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:19PM (#28588019)
> stop assuming that their IP address has anything to do with their physical location, culture, language, bank account region, home address, telephone prefix or anything else.

The unfortunate truth is that analytics have show that more users have their browsers configured than an IP that doesn't "match" a language that they understand. Very unfortunately but is basically the common case for browser defaults on the internet.

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Re:Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the ... by marcus_holmes on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:26AM (#28591113)
But this is circular reasoning. If every web dev ignores the browser setting and uses IP to determine language then the browser setting is irrelevant and no-one bothers setting it. So the browser setting is inaccurate for the majority of users and the web devs can cheerfully ignore it.

I have started a one-man campaign of creating support tickets for all sites that ignore my browser setting. Join me!

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