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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?

113 because I have a side business that I stopped giving a fuck about

Unhinged af

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

This entire post + thread is cursed