Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?

Re:Why does Google use location for language rather than bro... by ivan_ah on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:12AM (#30639381)

Yes, that's exactly my experience.

Most people who install windows don't bother to set the locale correctly, so everyone ends up en-US.

So if you trust the Accept Language header, you'll get it wrong.

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Re:Why does Google use location for language rather than bro... by nicolas_t on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:42AM (#30639745)

In which country did you see that? I'm curious because that contradicts my experience.

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Re:Why does Google use location for language rather than bro... by ivan_ah on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:32AM (#30640366)

My anecdotes are from two countries:

1. In Quebec, Canada where French speakers keep the default en-US, even thought most of their work and communications will be in fr-CA.

2. In Bulgaria, because most people learned computer concepts in English so seeing OS and Browser menus in Bulgarian would be confusing to them.

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Re:Why does Google use location for language rather than bro... by nicolas_t on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:30AM (#30641967)

Thanks, I guess both cases make sense and in that case geolocation probably works better.

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