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by serentty 1588 days ago
So now you have to rely on hardcoded heuristics based on the website’s domain name instead of just being able to choose. There are so many complicated heuristics to choose this hard-to-predict factor which it still gets wrong often. Removing the user’s control over this seems like a dreadful move.

> This is a feature that is really not often used, whose omission is not fatal, which often requires several tries to get right, and which is increasingly less useful thanks to gradual changes on the Web.

How often do you visit small indie websites in non-English languages? Because in my experience, as soon as you do, this is not a rare occurrence.