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it's still ignoring your manually set browser language preferences and is instead using your IP to guess your location and use the primary language of that country, because google is shite
Even when it uses the set browser language it sucks if you speak more than one language and don‘t want translations of either of them.
it works half the time?
If I google something in English I'm going to get results in English (plus localised ads of course). But if I have a linguistic question about English, no matter how advanced, I'm going to get surface level results in Polish.
Tbf whatever info they have on me imples they're very confused. I get ads about: "stay legally in Poland! :)" and "leave Poland and get a job in the Netherlands/Germany! :)" then "polish lessons!" and "English lessons!", I'm starting to think that in the eyes of the AI overlords I'm both polish and not polish at the same time.
You get ads?
"sponsored" results which I count as ads
The paradox of your existence is a threat to the AI. You’re in big trouble once it figures out how to go back in time and try to kill your mother.
Schrödingers Polak
Schroedinger's polecat
Seems like an ordinary experience with Google. They love assuming what users want instead of letting them have options.
Those assumptions and deliberately disregarding what the user wants and replacing it with something that makes Google more money makes it such an astoundingly bad experience. But Bing and DDG somehow still give way worse results ime.
bing started doing it a bit too and DDG is using both their indexes/results
They learned this from Microsoft.
Open google.com/ncr once. It sets your preference to no-country-redirect.
I'm not going to lie to you, I'm never using google unless I'm forced to
probably requires you to keep its cookies