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Not even just that, but where they ignore your Accept-Language and just make up a decision on what language you should be using. Google has no way to fully switch languages - even after going to Google.com and setting English, you'll see images have tooltips in your "local" language.

Google's Play app does the same thing for a bit of their content. Certain headers get localized, despite everything else in the app being English. Netflix has the same problem, and then to further add insult, they send you to non-English phone numbers for support.

The most annoying thing is that someone probably got a raise for these "features".




That doesn't actually fix it. When you start searching, the alt text for the logo is still in the "local" language.




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