As an avid VPN user it’s infuriating that multilingual websites insist on using the client’s IP address to determine their language and country when web browsers have been sending the Accept-Language HTTP header since the mid-90s.
I understand that you can work out more or less where someone is located based on their IP address but it was never meant to be a geo-based marker. Why not go the simple route and use the header?
Because they don’t make, or give a flying flip any you and vpn users. You are an not an important population to optimize around.
I’m not arguing that I am. I’m arguing that using an IP address to determine language settings is stupid, regardless of whether I’m using a VPN.