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by epolanski 921 days ago
You reminded me of how much hatred I had for Google binding all their products language (including Workspaces) to my account language, with no chance to be changed (even if I updated the account settings).

How can they be so unaware of the fact that people will often prefer english because that's the language with most tutorials/guides/resources and makes interoperability in cross-country remote companies simpler?

Don't they want to sell cloud products to global companies?

How am I supposed to help or receive help from my coworkers?

I have lost days and days trying to set Google Sheets in English and I have been stuck with the Italian version no matter how many changes I did to my Sheets or Google account settings.

There's a 5000+ comments/upvotes discussion on their forums and they simply don't give two damns, I don't think humans even see those threads.

Didn't feel so stressed using a software since programming in Liferay professionally or trying to figure out Autodesk products a decade ago for hobby 3d modelling..

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Their language handling was fubar'd years ago. There was a time that you could open the Google.com home page passing some query strings and it would let you search in English with non localized results BS. Years later, and Google/YouTube don't care. YouTube's search is abysmal and will shove shitty results that have nothing to do with your search and the language that your Google account is set up.
Ugh Google Flights.

Hey maybe try using, I dunno, the currency of my logged in account / country? Or the currency I used last time? Or the currency of my VPN country?

Just because I’m traveling in Uzbekistan for a few days doesn’t mean I want to buy tickets denominated in Uzbek Som.