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google ties that setting to your account. you have to sign-in.

It's too bad Google doesn't have some sort of language translation software they could easily use.

Yeah good luck making changing that work

As a multilingual user, fuck me right! I hate it so much that video sites insist on translating video titles, as if I wanted to watch a video in a language I don't speak. Even a VPN doesn't quite solve this, because my normal usage when browsing e.g. YouTube isn't one language or the other but both (though I do prioritize videos in my native language).

Uhhh…. Yes it does. I live in Spain and speak English, I’m not signed in, it’s down at the bottom of their page under settings or it will ask you like you see below. No vpn needed. And for apps on your phone it uses the regional setting, but most you can choose the default language in app settings.

You guys still use google ? 😂😂😂

Their translation software is total garbage.

Lol! You can literally set your preferred language in "settings".

Thought I was taking crazy pills, I've been changing language for search for years. The amount of people flat out agreeing with misinformation in this thread is wild. Plenty of great reasons to shit on Google but c'mon

So do we actually respect the Accept-Language header or is that just for tracking now?

sign-in and change it here for your account, applies while signed in to all google sites:
https://myaccount.google.com/language

or don't sign-in, change it for search only.
https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en&lang=1&prev=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fpreferences%3Fhl%3Den
this likely uses cookies so it would reset if you clear the one(s) that contain search preferences. the settings link that is actually on google's home page does take you to this.

All set to English except Region

But does it work? Nopes

People still use Google?

I use it to make life harder for anyone trying to collect my data out of sheer spite.

It could be some AB testing or regional differences

AB testing or regional

No. This has been this way for at least a decade. I travel the world, use different phones and devices. This is 99% user error.

Last I checked hl=en from 20 years ago still works reliably across all products, but I can see the new slop slowly creeping up in everything, enjoy it while the slop haven't reached that part.

This was ebay for the longest fime

I’m not signed in and have the option to change language

It has been this way ever since Google made your GMail Login your Google Account login in the 90's. I have a UK English Email and a US English Email because I liked that they called the 'Trash' the 'Bin' in Gmail and it was at least closer to Canadian English which to this day they refuse to recognize.

I VPN to a country whose language I know nothing about and have literally never had this problem.

I think there is an account setting to discourage results based on your location. But my google is set to English, that probably also helps

I don't even use google. We are not the same

We can't rule out the service going to shit for no reason. I'm like 99% sure you used to be able to block YouTube channels, you can't do that anymore.

I mean, today they don’t even recognize Lake Ontario everywhere, so I’m not surprised they don’t offer Canadian English now, but it’s weird they never did. I just checked and my phone maps app offers only German from Germany, which is really weird, because I know Swiss German has at least some very different vocabulary for train based transportation. That could be because my app store and google accounts are originally from the US, though.

I do live in Spain and speak English too and it mixes English and Spanish. I have it set for both interface and results in English.

It is most egregious when looking for video games and products as their names appear in Spanish websites.

Adding the word “review” doesn’t always filter out the Spanish pages as it is adopted in tech websites.

EDIT: Typos

Check my comment with screenshots of Google including results in Spanish despite having it set in English

https://lemmy.world/comment/26123949

I use a plugin for that:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stay-in-my-language-google/

To search, no. But YouTube and Maps are hard to replace

Inb4 several suggestions for both of those things that leave a lot to be desired in feature parity, but that lemmings will insist are better nonetheless.

Click on your profile bubble. On Mobile it's in the top right hand corner. Go to settings. Go to other settings. Language and region can be set manually.

Yeah! Fuck!

Sometimes, sacrifices are necessary.

I gave up social media over a decade ago, and after a few weeks forgot all about it. Found other ways to fill my down time.

This past spring, dove into LineageOS, not using MicroG or anything. All FOSS or at least open source + Proton (along with SimpleLogin for aliases). No MS (besides work), no Google, no banking apps (use browser). Hell, I don't even have a SIM in my phone. I use jmp.chat (phone #) + Snikket (XMPP sever) and Cheogram (communication app for SMS and calls). Sure, explaining that sounds excessive, but to the average person, I've got 99%the same functionality everyone else does.

I get no more spam calls, my battery lasts 2-4 days depending on usage, WAY less email, and I've not received any emails or alerts about data breaches (so far).

You use google

I usw duckduckgo

We are not the same

Lemmy isn't social media?

I've tried alternatives to Maps but honestly nothing comes close.

All bank accounts I have require a phone to log in.

yup. most things dont have this. try buying an audio book in another language other than english. heck just buying a reading book is hard enough. or getting one that is both without having to buy it twice or not available in both.

Lemmy is more like a large forum or series of forms. Most people are in communities because of common interest whereas social media is more like looking at people around you or whom you're friends with. It's also anonymous where SM is people standing on their little soap boxes subconsciously screaming, "look at me!".

I'm not saying map replacements are phenomenal. But CoMaps is using Open Street Maps, and for my measly little area I contribute a lot of data because POI are lacking. But for most use cases, its perfectly capable.

While yes, most/all banks require a phone number to login, they can't force you to use the app. My banks require phone numbers for the text verification. Better than nothing but still shitty MFA. So I login through the browser, not app, and I have a VoIP # for text verification codes to go to. Also, the browser UI is close enough to the mobile app it's easy enough.

Language and region can be set manually.

But not separately. You can't have the interface in English while on a non English speaking region.

And you can only set one language / region. I'm interested in results in a number of languages (ordered by priority), untranslated unless I fucking ask for a translation, and from a number of possibly unrelated regions (also ordered by priority).

And my region / language isn't an option anyway, so it's either the wrong, English speaking, region, or the closest region but the wrong language.

The whole concept is so profoundly imperialist and ignorant it makes me sick. Whoever perpetrated it is so tragically miseducated they can't even conceive the notion that their users might be able to understand more than one language, or be interested in more than one culture or region.

You use DuckDuckGo -
I use SearXNG

We are not the same

I tried CoMaps and on my first test I navigated to the airport and it says there's no metro connection (there is metro + bus). There's obviously no photos or reviews for anything neither.

For banks, I have 2 that only work through the app, the others I could maybe set up to use SMS instead of the app, but then I wouldn't be able to use it when I'm traveling abroad

Because even for that multi billion dollar company their developers still don't understand that country isn't equal to language preference. This has been an issue since the 90's that still isn't solved.

I just bought a recent ebook on Kobo. Two listings for different prices with EVERYTHING on the listing identical except the more expensive one had 2 authors. I had to look up separately that the second author is actually a translator and the more expensive book was a translation. The store listing didn't even have the language! I had to guess by the ethnicity of the translator's name 🤦🤦🤦

?hl=en

yw.

Assumptions:

1. You dont have a lot of people to converse with. I need 5 messaging apps to talk to people becuase they all use a different (shitty) one and won't just change to Signal.
2. You dont travel much or live in the US where WiFi is rare in any area outside heavy urban.

Otherwise, that's cool you can do that. If I did, I'd be talking to maybe 1 other IRL person who even knows wtf xmpp is.

Co maps doesnt work for people in the US that aren't new York city or Los Angeles folks.

Herewego is far better for me.

I download all my podcasts with the VPN on my phone set to France or Ireland. The ads are adorably useless and a pleasure to hear.

Gmail didn't exist in the 90s. It was first launched in invite-only beta on April 1, 2004.

For purely navigation, Herewego seems to work. But again, no photos, reviews or any info about a place. So for me, it won't replace Google.

It will also open in the wrong language on every new profile, incognito mode, cookie clear, despite the browser clearly sending that it only wants english language. Likely as punishment for not being trackable.
And it'll ignore the settings for google maps, and always open in the local language anyway no matter what.