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shoelessone on Feb 2, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of...

This is a serious annoyance for me all day long, across the internet. Have you found most sites respect your preferred languages list?

Symbiote on Feb 2, 2024 [–]

For Google, I found setting my browser to "Accept-Language: en,sv" when I live in Denmark was sufficient — just English and they seem to assume I can't configure the browser and want the local language.

PCMag serves me English, with "en-GB,en", though I don't know if they would support Danish anyway.

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