meanwhile AliExpress still just rolls a d20 to select my language every time I visit them, then fail to load cause their cookies broke.

My favorite thing is when my browser asks if I want to share my location, then I say no, then the website just knows where I am anyway

You know what I really like? Badly-made automated translations from a language that I’ve been learning for 25 years.

For real though, I had to set my browser’s language to English so sites like YouTube stop mangling the video titles, like what’s even the point of translating the titles when their content isn’t translated anyway?

This is why I get French localised ads living on the Ontario border of Quebec

And then there is this piece of garbage site foodnetwork.com. I once wanted to read a recipe there, but the site decided that since I’m in Poland, I should be on foodnetwork.pl. On a frontpage, that is. No way to stay on the English site, and that recipe doesn’t exist on the Polish one.

But… basically every website determines the language based on the language list they get from the browser…

That sucks when you have a VPN. Just let the browser select the language instead.

I’m two states away from Utah. But because my data terminates to L3 in Salt Lake, half of the porn sites that my wife and I frequent want our Utah driver’s license or passport. For a state that claims to hate stepping on sneks, they do love forcing their “morality” on everybody else.

No. Just fucking no. If I want my morality policed, the last place I’ll go is to a religious institution.

Thank jeebus for VPNs.

Script blockers can obfuscate data harvesting and make it near impossible for them to do this kind of malicious behavior.