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geeksforgeeks.com forcefully google translates it's website based on ip (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hate accidentally clicking on that website on search results. What kind of deranged website translates code??? It ignores the browser language setting and translates based on ip, and it keeps happening even if you click turn off translate for this website. Aaaargh

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

As a web developer who also uses VPN with exit nodes in other countries (because online privacy sucks here) I’ll never understand why the headers aren’t used for language selection (along with a reasonable fallback). That’s always how I implement it anyway.

IP addresses weren’t really supposed to designate geolocation and I think expecting it to is very lazy (though I can understand when done for legal reasons).