As a default, geoip is remarkably effective. When you didn't know anything about...

dijit · 2025-03-06T14:46:52 1741272412

But, the users browser is telling you the language they speak!!!

shadowgovt · 2025-03-06T15:40:10 1741275610

That's the problem: too often, it is not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7a2cfe/comment/dp77... for details: there are a lot of reasons speakers more comfortable with another language will have their OS locale (and therefore the accept-language header) set to English.