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by jeshin 1432 days ago
i hate the english version of amazon.de, for some reason amazon keeps activating this for me, and now whenever i type in an english book title it "helpfully" translates it to german
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I have this issue with Amazon Japan; it's frequently related to clicking links from friends or Google that have the language setting encoded in the URL, which changes my personal settings.
Do you use an English version of the browser or the OS? Maybe even on a phone because they could merge together all the inferred i18n preferences.
My browser is in English, with an accept header preference for English. But that does not mean, that I want shitty machine translated versions. After all, German is also in my accept header, so if that’s the only real version, please give me that one.