Used a VPN to my home while in Mexico. Returned a week ago and all my devices (including those that have never been in Mexico) now show they’re in Mexico. Google’s IP correction form says it can take a month to fix.
Why does the browser go through all the trouble of sending out your language when Google is going to ignore it anyways?
I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
So this is just Google punishing you?
Do you believe a multinational company’s business polices are targeting you specifically each time you have a problem?
Not always, but sounds like in this case it seems plausible
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.
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.
because their developers are anglobrained and think all countries all monolingual blocks
It’s a message. “I know where you’ve been, you’re not slick. Now repent.”
I can help with that https://duckduckgo.com/
It’s already my primary search engine, but unfortunately it’s not a full Google replacement.
StartPage is a wrapper on Google and it respects privacy
I use Startpage but haven’t found a replacement for Google Maps that functions nearly as well. Once Google decides my residential IP is in another country the Maps interface language changes. Google also sells IP geolocation info some companies use and those website often behave the same way.
Do you sign in? Google uses all sorts of data to determine your location.
