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My personal papercut is with YouTube.

It doesn’t care that:

- my browser is in English

- that I’m logged in and with English as my language

- that my region is set to the U.S.

- that I only used English keywords on the search box

It still gives me Portuguese results as my geo ip is in Brazil.

It’s infuriating.

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I'm Italian, but I live in Germany and my language is set to English on all my devices and software.

I haven't lived in Italy for about a decade, but I created my Google account when I was still in Italy. To this day YouTube will randomly switch to Italian and machine-translate some (but not all!) titles and descriptions of YouTube videos.

I've manually changed the language setting back to English a dozen times and tried to nuke any reference to Italy from my profile but Google keeps thinking "This poor user must have accidentally switched language and not know how to go back! Let me help and serve him half translated websites" every two months or so.

Same, but with Spanish. My first language is Spanish but 99% of the media I consume is in English. Each time I log into YouTube my location is set to Chile and language to Spanish. Each time I change them to US and English. I've even sent complaints but nothing ever happens.

That doesn't happen to me, I can open YouTube in incognito mode and the UI is in English. I'm not using a VPN. So it surely has to be your browser or OS settings.

google.com on the other hand is Spanish.

If that helps, even if your location and language was set correctly, you'd still get local results in Youtube.

My Youtube account is configured to use English, with a location in France. It still returns videos in Spanish when I'm in Spain. The UI is in English, but the search results in Spanish.

Same for me here in Denmark for google and gmail - I don't f***g speak Danish!

So the Googlers in Zurich Switzerland should get a Swiss German version. I'm sure they'd fix that soon enough.

The "fix" was probably to add an exception to the IP range of the Swiss office...

I wonder if they don't have some VPN anyway so that the exit IP is something completely different to the region. Or if the Google searches even see the Internet, or if they stay within the "intranet".

Same with Google Images. All the results are from local sources although I have selected Language: English and Region: United States in the settings. This is indeed infuriating.

By the way, I just went to https://www.google.com/preferences and the page is totally broken (Google Chrome with disabled ublock/privacybadger), when I click on Languages or Appearance or Region: Show more (at the bottom), nothing happens. "Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined" in the console.

Youtube has a specific setting under the rightmost menu (under the avatar) to change country and language. It used to work great, you could have multiple browsers/containers set for different languages. This is very interesting to get the news or trending pages from another country. But lately it's been buggy and constantly switch back to some IP-based guess.

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