Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites that guess your language
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 6 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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Browser language setting ignored, language guessed from IPUnreviewed
20122026- Sites ignore or override the user's manual language choice based on IP2022-07-15
- Page loads in wrong language and reloads wrong language even after user picks the right one2020-06-07
- Sites ignore browser language setting and guess language from IP, forcing the wrong language2014-03-16
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 7 complaints
- Sites ignore or override the user's manual language choice based on IP2022-07-15
- Page loads in wrong language and reloads wrong language even after user picks the right one2020-06-07
- Forced to manually pick a country from a list to get their native language2020-05-18
- Date order changes when travelling, which can be very confusing2020-05-18
- Auto-chosen language is hard or impossible to change back2017-04-23
- Sites ignore browser language setting and guess language from IP, forcing the wrong language2014-03-16
- Sites switch to local language by location and make it hard to change back2012-08-22