Still happens. Even worse, there are sites that still think French is the only language in Belgium. Sometimes they offer French and English for Belgium, even though they do have a Dutch-language site if you choose the Netherlands instead of Belgium. I don't understand where they get their info on languages in Belgium.
For those who don't know: in a long gone past, any official business in Belgium was done in French, even though about half of the population spoke Dutch. But that's long gone, and certainly dates from long before the rise of the world wide web. These days we have three official languages: Dutch, spoken by about 40% of the population; French, about 40%; German, less than 1%.
EDIT: Example: Nvidia's site. Opens in French for me, and the "Select your location" page has only "Belgique (Belgium)" for Belgium, which links to a site in French. For our Dutch neighbors in the Netherlands they do have a site in Dutch. I don't even understand why they don't just offer a language choice instead of a location/language choice. The specs and drivers for a video card are the same whether the card is in Belgium or in the USA or anywhere else.
For those who don't know: in a long gone past, any official business in Belgium was done in French, even though about half of the population spoke Dutch. But that's long gone, and certainly dates from long before the rise of the world wide web. These days we have three official languages: Dutch, spoken by about 40% of the population; French, about 40%; German, less than 1%.
EDIT: Example: Nvidia's site. Opens in French for me, and the "Select your location" page has only "Belgique (Belgium)" for Belgium, which links to a site in French. For our Dutch neighbors in the Netherlands they do have a site in Dutch. I don't even understand why they don't just offer a language choice instead of a location/language choice. The specs and drivers for a video card are the same whether the card is in Belgium or in the USA or anywhere else.