[i80and]

I had a fascinating issue with Google.

I am a monolingual English speaker. I visited Iceland, and as happens, Google started serving UIs in Icelandic even while I was logged in.

What was interesting was this continued for weeks after returning to my home country. There was no setting I could find to go back to English; I got good at the specific Icelandic keywords I needed to navigate the UI. Then without any ceremony, things suddenly reverted back to English.

[Semaphor]

Back in the mid-2000s, I remember there being 3 different language settings in your Google account, the one on the security page completely ignoring whatever language settings you had and always using geo-ip instead. And I couldn’t even figure out why there were 3 different settings for language.

[sokoloff]

I had a similar experience with (enterprise paid) Outlook365 Webmail (but in Italian, which I do not read). It persisted for several days and then went away before I bothered to chase it down.