Fuuuuuck this country is just gonna be a bunch of pasty-ass white people. I’m saying this as a white person.

You know, like two months ago everyone was crying that Democrats don’t do enough fighting back against Republicans and your comment has me thinking “well this is why they didn’t.”

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

I speak English natively and Spanish as a second language but most people I talk to speak English as a second language.

When I go back to my hometown I have a pretty noticeable accent and I tend to use a smaller vocabulary.

Here’s the video.

That’s actually a very good point. Thanks!

Why is it always a temporary ruling? Then we never hear about it again.

And block it entirely via DNS and/or IP filtering. They’ll track you across the web even if you’re not a user.

Isn’t it obvious? I’m a bot and/or troll which is always what it means when someone posts something a bit late.

I’m not arguing that I am. I’m arguing that using an IP address to determine language settings is stupid, regardless of whether I’m using a VPN.

Doesn’t it cost less money to parse the header than to pay for an entire geolocation dataset?

The country-based shopping dilemma sounds tough to solve without a VPN. I think the explanation there is that because countries have different laws they might not be legally allowed to show some products.

I’m an American tech worker (not bro thankfully) and I’ve seen the poor translation issue firsthand: using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

I also happen to be multilingual and it’s just unbearable watching some of this stuff play out. Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard. I wish companies would invest in translation services instead of relying on Google or some other equally bad service.

Is user consent needed for the Accept-Language header? That would be kind of insane. I realize that it could be considered identifiable but that still feels strange to me.

I’m thinking mostly of localization, primarily language.

I’ve noticed that too, it’s so dumb especially when your browser’s language is set to one of them in the first place.

I don’t even game but I want to buy this

As a user it’s annoying because I have to hunt down the language/region settings. And as a developer it would cost me a lot more to hunt down those values based on the client IP address.

Don’t you mean 34 times convicted felon?

Surprise! The orange cunt is back at it! 🥴

Sure, but that could be decoupled from language/regional preferences.

When I travel to another country my smartphone doesn’t change its language to match that of the host country, so why don’t websites respect the user-defined preference defined in the header?

Excellent point on the local cache explanation! I hadn’t thought of that.

As a web developer myself I’m into detecting it automatically then redirecting to a URL that includes it (like /en/products). Then of course users can manually change it by signing in and/or using cookies.