Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So this is just Google punishing you?

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Are you asking that because you believe a multinational companies business polices target you specifically?

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      • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not always, but sounds like in this case it seems plausible

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• MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    because their developers are anglobrained and think all countries all monolingual blocks

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A lot of Japanese websites I visit are the opposite. They look at my browser’s language setting and display everything in “English” even though I’m clearly accessing from Japan.

    The problem is, their “English” sites are often machine-translated messes that I have to manually select the language. Even more annoying is when that language setting gets reset every time I click on a link.

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• kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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