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I don't understand these websites which force translation to my native language.

I mean, it's fine as it's useful for many people, but where is the button for disabling it ? Or why is it enabled by default ?

"codage de pointe" sounds so weird and cringe in French.

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Same for apps and games. I understand English just fine, no need to switch to your shitty Google-translate localization just because my iPhone or PlayStation is set to my native language.

Does your browser request French via an Accept-Language header perhaps? What really infuriates me is when sites don’t respect that header and give you a translation based on IP location.

Regardless if it does or not, users should be able to manually override what language the website is in, at least be able to read the native one, regardless of what the original language was, what headers you send and where geodatabases think your IP is from.

Correct answer! What a bad UX

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