Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Automatic language and location redirects
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Sites ignore browser language, forcing repeated manual language changesUnreviewed
20122026- Sites ignore browser language and localize menus by location, forcing repeated manual language changes2024-05-05
- Gets served a French site version it didn't choose, ignoring browser language settings2023-12-04
- Sites ignore the browser's language preference and show the wrong language based on IP location2012-08-22
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Following an English link redirects to a local-language portal, forcing a repeat search2025-05-19
- Search-result page redirects to another language's domain, where the page can't be found2024-05-05
- Language selector is hidden, so the user cannot switch to a language they can read2024-05-05
- Sites ignore browser language and localize menus by location, forcing repeated manual language changes2024-05-05
- Gets served a French site version it didn't choose, ignoring browser language settings2023-12-04
- Sites ignore the browser's language preference and show the wrong language based on IP location2012-08-22