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My browser is in English, and so are all my Google/YouTube settings, yet the movies are also dubbed in another language based on my current IP address. YouTube should respect my language setting.

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Please Google, fix this. In Switzerland we have 3 main languages over a very small territory. Some Google services respond with content randomly in German, Italian or French, sometimes even mixed (ex: Playstore shows different language for titles than descriptions. Youtube loves to show me German videos ... ).

I'd be very interested on why they choose to guess the language based on IP. What could be the advantage ?

This is annoying to me in the US as well. I'm trying to stay fluent in my other language, and finding good non-English content on Amazon, iTunes, Netflix, Spotify, etc is close to impossible. No matter what my language is set to.

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