Multilingual users repeatedly reset language preferences across websites
People who use different languages across services find browser-wide language settings too blunt, while changing preferences site by site becomes tedious. A per-site rules list could help, but users note it would need to be easy to maintain and sync, and some sites may still apply their own settings. The related WordPress translation and translation-file requests describe separate workflows, not a clear extension of this core problem.
For multilingual internet users. Mentioned from Oct 2020 to Jul 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
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Using a site specific list on the client side could also do it (let's say I always want Facebook in a language and Google in another, Linkedin in yet another etc.). It still will be pretty cumbersome, probably needs an auto-save and sync of the preferences, and still hits problematic cases
I wish there were a way for the browser to ignore some system languages
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