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Don’t get me started! Every time I travel somewhere, Google and a bunch of other web sites just decide on their own to send me web content in the local language. Why?? Just respect the user agent’s Accept-Language header. That’s the whole purpose of it!
Because 99.999% of people don't know what that is.
It is a coincidence, I recently had my account changed from Australia to Germany. Seems to simply depend on your IP, as I don't have any payment methods associated as speculated in another comment.
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No, because browser makers don't expose it appropriately. There aren't any real alternatives: The only way to determine the user's language preference that can actually work is for them to provide it.
What would be appropriate? Firefox has it under "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" which seems appropriate to me.
Lets be honest.. it's not "your account" it's "their account". It's not just Google, this is the modern web. If you use a web based service I think it's better to assume everything you give them is theirs, otherwise it's an impossible battle of constantly reviewing massive ToS changes and a mutating product/features. I guess this view probably sounds a little out of touch but it's easier if you don't use a smart phon…
wow, what's going on here? Is google now a sensitive subject?
One of my favorite stickers: "There is no cloud, just someone else's computer"
Techies hate it when you point crap like that out - because it re-enforces that trust, reputation, creditability, character - all those things matter. And most tech companies have damn little of any of those :p
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And how does google satisfy a countries laws if they associate a customer with the wrong country?
In this article, Google wasn't incorrect though - this person just wanted the rules for a country they werent in to apply instead of local rules. Google made a good faith attempt to comply with local rules for this customer based on the (correct) location data they had.
> There is a disadvantage for me, because the privacy laws in Europe are stronger than Asia, I lose some privacy protection. You don't lose privacy protection by virtue of Google changing your location. You lose privacy protection by not being a resident of the jurisdiction with those laws.
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BTW companies like Paypal enforced US boycotts on cuba even if the customer is a EU citizens. "The ticket retailer Proticket, for example, filed a lawsuit against the blocking of its account after offering tickets for the musical "Soy de Cuba" and the concert of a Cuban artist. Although Proticket won its case at the Dortmund Regional Court in spring 2016, Paypal still did not change its approach."
Doesn't the law block PayPal from being involved in such a transaction?
Pretty sure PayPal EU wants to be able to send money to people in the US.
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Unlike computer code, laws tend to have wiggle room. IANAL, but I expect in this case "best effort" is good enough.
How but just asking your customer instead of guessing by unreliable factors?
Of course it's not.
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No, because browser makers don't expose it appropriately. There aren't any real alternatives: The only way to determine the user's language preference that can actually work is for them to provide it.
What would be appropriate? Firefox has it under "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" which seems appropriate to me.
I haven't seen anybody install software on the wrong language by mistake for a long time.