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I wish we could rely on legal means to prevent tracking, rather than break useful functionality.

It's already annoying that developers assume my language based on my location, with features like this my real preference will be harder to determine.

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In this case that functionality is broken right from the start. There should be a visible lang switch on a website. All other solutions are too technical, and/or have unexpected consequences, and/or lack flexibility.

There should be both: picking a user-specified default on first visit to address the common case, but still provide a switch to change the language manually.

As a user, what I actually miss is the ability to configure language preferences in the browser based on CCTLD.

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