Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 hours ago
Why does the browser go through all the trouble of sending out your language when Google is going to ignore it anyways?
As much as I hate it, I’m 90% sure that they did some analysis (probably 10 years ago now) and found that there are enough people that don’t properly configure their computer that IP location is actually a better indicator than the Accept-Language header.
…which of course perpetuates the problem.
I don’t understand why a lot of websites go long ways into getting country from IP and then language from country instead of using directly the language reported by browser.
because their developers are anglobrained and think all countries all monolingual blocks
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
huppakee@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So this is just Google punishing you?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Are you asking that because you believe a multinational companies business polices target you specifically?
huppakee@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Not always, but sounds like in this case it seems plausible