As a web developer who also uses VPN with exit nodes in other countries (because online privacy sucks here) I’ll never understand why the headers aren’t used for language selection (along with a reasonable fallback). That’s always how I implement it anyway.

IP addresses weren’t really supposed to designate geolocation and I think expecting it to is very lazy (though I can understand when done for legal reasons).

I recently found a very nice extension called uBlacklist. It allows you to block sites from search results in most of the popular search engines, that one was literally the first I blocked.

Google, and Google maps does this too. It’s really annoying. Except that you can explicitly override the language, but you have to do it every session

There are loads of websites that do that.

History.com is the one that pisses me off since I like to read history articles. They always force me to the spanish pages since I’m in colombia and it’s always the homepage, not the page I linked to. So then I have to figure out if there even is a spanish language version of the article which 80% of the time there isn’t.