I checked the languages settings in firefox. It has only english. The OS has english and hebrew.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:42 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>wrote: > Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what > language you want regardless of geolocation: > 1. IP as mentioned by Tomer > 2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver, > generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you > can set/change the order in Edit > Preferences > Content > Languages. > > > 2014-04-16 0:15 GMT+03:00 Tomer Cohen <to...@gmx.net>: > > The browser geolocation feature meant to provide sites access to an accurate >> location data from a GPS receiver or other techniques. This feature is in >> use by Google Maps as well as some other sites, but require your permission >> before submitting your location data once or per-session. >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation >> >> Sites can't ever access this data without your prior permission. Since >> this is probably not the case, I don't think the geolocation API was used. >> The site in question probably located you by the GeoIP feature, which >> doesn't provide accurate location but a country of origin or estimated >> region in the country. It is more difficult to fake GeoIP since it is based >> only by your IP address, but you can use a proxy or a VPN to remove your >> traces. >> >> Given that said, sometimes it is easier to just change a preference on >> the site to provide you the site in another language (but still this won't >> remove any country restrictions for content). >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, sara fink <sara.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone >>> >>> I changed enable.geolocation to false in firefox, but it still doesn't >>> work with the site that I want to enter. I am still redirected to israeli >>> site instead of the abroad site. >>> >>> Anyone knows why this configuration doesn't work? Is there another way >>> to make it work? I tried the extension of geolocater but this one also >>> doesn't work for new firefox versions >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Tomer Cohen >> http://tomercohen.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> >
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