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Why would you want to see Laotian?

Agree with the op. Not only do I regularly struggle with location-based internationalization, sometimes I can't even /see/ pages depending on location. Tried to find the product page for new google ear buds thing (in Korea) and they refuse to even display it. Of course, setting up local ssh tunnel to ec2 machine based in US takes < 60sec but it's still annoying.



> Why would you want to see Laotian?

Statistically speaking, Laotian users speak Laotian. As a traveler, I’m the minority.

Regarding the rest, I feel you. They can guess whatever language as long as they make it easy to change it, without unnecessary redirection games.

Apple.com is relatively good with this:

> Hey I see you’re in Thailand, maybe you want to check out the Thai site.


I thought you were suggesting that you would prefer to see Laotian despite OS/browser language settings, nvm




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