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.

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    1 day 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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      10 hours 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.