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		woutr_be on May 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't set the language of your website based on us... This is one of my main pain points with a lot of websites, including Google. I live in Hong Kong, and it constantly keeps setting itself in Chinese. Quite a few websites do this, even though my browser is set to English. Worst of all, even when I set Google to English, the OAuth popups remain in Chinese with no option to change.

AlchemistCamp on May 18, 2020 [–]

My favorite was getting a recaptcha in Thai when logging into LinkedIn during my first week in Chiangmai.

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