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At least it's not as bad as Aliexpress.

They have randomly served me the page in Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Portugese, Thai, German and Romanian. The only good thing is that the menu to change back to english is less hidden nowdays.

Yet to see it in my native Finnish. And all these without a VPN and from a domestic consumer ISP connection.




I thought Aliexpress was just trying to subtly say "FU, we're the new dominant culture now" to western Europeans by randomly switching to Chinese like 25% of the time...

Guess they just have one of the buggiest locale detections in the world :)))

EDIT+: ...or maybe too many Chinese users leave their proxy/VPN on when using their site too


I can tell you, that I saw my native Polish, and I wish I didn't. The automatic translation is so bad, that I automatically rush to switch to English.


> Romanian

They figured out that "la naiba" is better than "perkele" :-p


Aliexpress also doesn’t allow me to use my normal email, I think they have a whitelist of known email provider domains or something like that. It’s a pretty atrocious website all around.




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