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by mariocesar 2936 days ago
My point is that is entitlement.

I browse the site and it defaults to English, and my browser is set to en_US as locale.

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How is it entitlement?

This is an american company, so default language is in english. Which I went to the trouble of learning in order to "join the rest of the world", out of my tiny homecountry.

They have their content available in spanish as well, which is great, but I don't speak it (I do actually but I am so sick of it being forced on me)

All I want is the courtesy of letting me choose the language that I want them to talk to me with.

Imagine if someone irl would only speak to you in spanish cause you're latino-looking

Yes but if you were in the US and your locale was es_US, wouldn't it be frustrating if a website that offered Spanish gave you English by default simply because they were not utilizing locale correctly?