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Comment by cbarrick | Hacker News Reader

This was so annoying when visiting Poland recently. I don't speak Polish.

Even after setting my preferred language on my Google account, Google Search was still speaking Polish to me.

Ha, I even started to receive spam mail in Polish (kind of "we got your webcam, give us money"). They're clearly using the collected data and are subject to the same problems.

Wait, how would that work for scammers?

Scammers can also buy aggregate information, just like advertisers

Prime video is amazing for this; in Germany but only dubs available? Admit defeat that the orig audio is somehow not available but not even English subtitles?!

With video I think that it’s sometimes a licensing thing. As in, the streaming service licenses subtitles from a third party and the rights are limited to specific countries.

That's a weird one. It's common for people to prefer the original audio, and most Germans understand English.

Germany has a very strong culture of dubbing essentially everything. Just finding any showing of a film in its original language at a cinema is very difficult outside of major cities for example.

Same in Spain. Often only the Spanish dubbed audio is available making the content useless to me.

With the increase in ads on streaming platforms I've just reverted back to piracy. The enshittification has gone too far.

Same in the Netherlands. It gave me everything in Dutch, even after I logged in.

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