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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Multiple times, in the US, I've clicked on a Google link to a reddit thread and it loads in like Turkish or something. Usually it just takes a refresh of the page to get back to english, but it's still weird that it's happened to me multiple times.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Using a VPN? Usually that my reason

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I see google results for Steam forums default to weird languages all the time without being on a vpn and along side perfectly fine english default results (inculding often the same forum thread just in a different default language), so I'm more inclined to say there's something about that part of the algorithm that's just fucked.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Not on my built-in Google app. I do use a VPN on Opera, and Ecosia has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well too, but I don't do anything fancy to my Google other than YouTube Revanced.

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