There is a special place in hell for web sites that ignore your browser language setting and match the site language based on your IP.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

There is a special place in hell for web sites that ignore your browser language setting and match the site language based on your IP. For those that don't even allow you to force the language you want, there is an extra special place reserved...

#strava I'm looking at you at the moment...

[sldrant@mastodon.social]

@drajt oh all seem to do that

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@sldrant I know, are they stupid, evil, or both?

[sldrant@mastodon.social]

@drajt in my experience, stupid. I had this argument in the past and many don't understand that there's headers that tell you. Some devs give a use preference which is also good, but still too many think ip address is the right way to tell what a user wants (and it's not even great for telling where a user is!)