Same thing is happening with me in Japan when I use Amazon Prime Video app, the region is Japan but the language is English, yet the app is in Japanese and there's no way I can switch languages! (I know 0 Japanese)
Waze in notorious in this regard. Travel from Sweden to Germany by plane. Turn your phone on: ooooh, let's download German voices while you are roaming. Also, let's not let you switch back to Swedish/English/whatever your previous language was.
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Opposite of 4 is also true: assuming that I speak German only because my IP is German is pretty naive.
Just two example why this is wrong:
I live in Germany but don’t speak German and don’t even have it in Accept Languages list in the browser settings. Keep seeng German versions of sites.
We have a weird network configuration in the office and many sites think I’m in the Netherlands.
Same thing is happening with me in Japan when I use Amazon Prime Video app, the region is Japan but the language is English, yet the app is in Japanese and there's no way I can switch languages! (I know 0 Japanese)
Yep, or even just working at a distributed site or on vacation, making use of local networks.
Waze in notorious in this regard. Travel from Sweden to Germany by plane. Turn your phone on: ooooh, let's download German voices while you are roaming. Also, let's not let you switch back to Swedish/English/whatever your previous language was.