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Please do not make assumptions..

When you create a world class e-shop and if you detect a person is browsing from some EU country, don't assume he's fluent in Spanish [?].

Aliexpress detects I'm from LT and I have no idea how to change my language. I don't understand spanish enough to find langg settings and changing the url does not work

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  • 0
    356d
    Did you get a popup which you clicked and it localised the site? Or it was automatic?
  • 6
    356d
    Idioma is language
  • 2
    356d
    Doesn't changing the subdomain of the url from es to en do the trick ?
  • 3
    356d
    @soberGhost he mentions that it doesn't work
  • 1
    356d
    @asgs automatic. It wouldn't be a rant if it was my fault
  • 0
    356d
    @alexbrooklyn it went over my tiny head
  • 2
    356d
    Since every browser actually sends a preferred language header with every request, i seriously don't get, why language assumptions are even a thing. It literally can't get more explicit than that.
  • 1
    356d
    I see a menu with a tiny flag there. Won't changing that change the language? Or.. it's tied to shipping address?
  • 1
    356d
    @daniel-wu Well, it's my national flag, which is unrelated to ESP.

    I figured it would change my location. Even if I manage to get EN language, it's useless to me if I'll be browsing the UK or USA-focused market.
  • 0
    356d
    can't you change your location at the flag line? VPN?
  • 1
    356d
    @netikras right, you don't just wanna read but order something... as a final resort start learning spanish till u got enough to be able to browse it in that lang...mainly the menu words and the warnings and form label ;)
  • 1
    356d
    "idioma" is language, there's Google translate, you can change the URL from ".es." to your country, the icon next to "idioma" is the standard for fonts/language...

    I mean... There are quite a few things that might clue you into how to change language
  • 2
    356d
    I wonder how you got there. Did the URL you clicked perhaps already contain "m.es"?

    If not yeah that detection is super broken. I've not seen that in a long time. Mostly I get to see half translated shit. Especially with sites of Spanish origin. Go to checkout and everything is in fucking Spanish all the sudden.
  • 1
    356d
    @hjk101 I opened FF on my android phone, entered "aliexpress.com" and it just happened.

    Not the first time tho.
  • 3
    356d
    @ZioCain yayy, that worked! Thanks!

    Took me a Spanish speaker to solve this blocker-problem. GJ Aliexpress, brilliant UX! 100/100!! /s
  • 2
    356d
    @hjk101

    > Go to checkout and everything is in fucking Spanish all the sudden.

    yeah! For me it's sometimes Russian. Even on a laptop.

    It's like a polyglot unicorn farted on this website.
  • 5
    355d
    Websites should ALWAYS use language settings based on the system settings and browser settings, NEVER based on location
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