How can a site still determine my browser language?

Andrew tor at kleinhirn.org
Tue May 20 08:52:26 UTC 2008


Steven wrote:
> Yet, each time I go to www.gmail.com, Google redirects me to the 
> German version of Gmail. I think the only reason this happens is the 
> fact that my real browser is German. But how can Google detect that? 
> There are no other relevant URL patterns that match for Google on 
> Privoxy (i.e. no exception rules) as far as I can tell. Any ideas?
>
Have you ever logged into that account without using privoxy or the 
spoofing turned off? Especially when you signed up for your account?
Google uses cookies...
> Thanks,
> Steven
Andrew



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