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Geolocation and forced auto-translation
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Ebay recently decided it would be a great idea to translate listings and the whole website to my local language even when logged out, and it's abysmal and I can't get used to it after using ebay for more than a decade. It's horrible. Is there a way to hide my location through vivaldi or any trick to make this tragedy stop without a VPN or pouring hot sauce in my eyes? I love my local language (Hungarian) but it's perfectly unsuitable for IT
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@internetexplorer Hi - I doubt this is from Ebay itself. Check your translation settings in Vivaldi and turn off Always Translate Hungarian.
If you are comfortable with English, turn off the setting to Automatically Offer To Translate Page under Settings > General > Language.
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@Pathduck I'm grateful for your help but everything you suggested was already always set up correctly. This indeed looks like big tech idiocy breaking things what were never broken. I'm furious, this looks like a bigger problem for me than appears, who is using ebay a hundreds of times a day for price checking. Logging in to ebay is also not an option as it can't be turned off.
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@internetexplorer Well, does it also happen in other browsers (Firefox/Edge/Chrome)? That would be a good test.
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@Pathduck great suggestion. tried it in Edge, and it happened, to my horror.
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@internetexplorer OK really strange, I guess it's something EBay is doing then.
AFAIK Ebay does not have a language setting if you log in. Also there is no
ebay.husite from what I can tell.I tried setting Vivaldi to Norwegian under Settings > General > Language and changing Accept Language setting to
no, nbbut only prices were changed to NOK. I also tried the same with Hungarian, still English language and prices in NOK. So I guess it does some IP detection.I'm surprised they have translated their site to Hungarian at all, but hey at least there's more Hungarians than Norwegians I guess
You could always test with a "free" VPN like Windscribe I guess, just to check if it's actually IP-based detection they use.
Also, by default, the setting for Location in Vivaldi is "Ask" so you would have to allow the site to use your location data, but they can still use your IP to estimate your location/country. Also Location in Vivaldi currently does not work except in Windows devices where you'll need to specifically allow it to use your Location data. A regular desktop PC won't have any GPS data anyway of course, but some modern laptops and tablets might.
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@Pathduck Well Norwegians might be a few millions short of Hungarians, but their GDP and average salaries are much higher so it makes absolutely no sense to translate Hungary first. I hope it's a bug on eBay's end at this point.
I tried it with a VPN using Bulgarian and Canadian proxies and everything was in English as it should be.
Thank you so much for trying to help me and for putting so much effort in this, I'm eternally grateful!
Let's hope these are tests only and the problem magically goes away.
