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by wazoox 27 days ago
The page is redirected to https://usborne.com/fr/books/computer-and-coding-books which is 404, and there is no way around it. That's quite maddening when a website does this kind of things.
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Apparently people aren't aware that not everybody lives in the US, but some may want to see the US page of the website anyway. Auto-redirecting people to the local version is incredibly stupid, particularly when it ends in a 404.
It's a British publisher, so they're not unaware, just incompetent.

Maybe the global page would work better than the US page which is the HN link.

https://usborne.com/row/books/computer-and-coding-books

Nope, also redirect to the "fr" version if you're using a French browser, even when using a VPN connection localised in UK...