If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.

IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user speaks. It looks like Google thinks otherwise, and many programmers are blindly repeating it for Google with no idea how do it properly.

  • chonkyninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    218·
    3 days ago

    It’s not the IP you dumbass, it’s your browser sending a header that says you speak X.

    • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      261·
      3 days ago

      Did you read the post? The author was complaining about websites who use just the IP instead of the header.