Do you have en-US or en-GB as an alternate, lower-priority language? If an Engli... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		harshreality 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't guess my language Do you have en-US or en-GB as an alternate, lower-priority language? If an English variant is in your Accept-Lang: headers, I'd hope YT wouldn't auto-translate English titles. The other thing that Google might properly use is account-specific language settings. But if they're using GeoIP as has been suggested, I agree they're doing it wrong.

lxgr 8 months ago [–]

> If an English variant is in your Accept-Lang: headers, I'd hope YT wouldn't auto-translate English titles.

Your hope is unfortunately entirely misplaced. Google is one of the worst offenders for assuming language and region from users' IP.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact