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    David Weir :v_enby: (davidjamesweir@mementomori.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 23:34:31 JST David Weir :v_enby: David Weir :v_enby:

    Does anyone know how to get Google Maps on iOS to not translate reviews? It seems to translate and deprioritise reviews in Finnish, meaning I get a totally different perspective of a place than other people. 🙄

    I noticed it started auto translating reviews a few months ago but I had not noticed it deprioritising reviews before.

    #GoogleMaps #enshittification

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      Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 23:34:30 JST Nemo_bis 🌈 Nemo_bis 🌈
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      @davidjamesweir What interface language is Google Maps set to? Is this in Safari?

      #i18n

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      Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:44:55 JST Nemo_bis 🌈 Nemo_bis 🌈
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      @davidjamesweir OK. So I don't think there's a concept of content language vs. interface language settings, nor the ability to pick a ranked list of preferred languages (unlike say on Wikimedia wikis). Is using Finnish interface language an option?

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      David Weir :v_enby: (davidjamesweir@mementomori.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:44:56 JST David Weir :v_enby: David Weir :v_enby:
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      @nemobis It’s English; in the native app.

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      Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 17:53:50 JST Nemo_bis 🌈 Nemo_bis 🌈
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      @davidjamesweir Thanks, I didn't know about iOS preferred languages! I wish Google trusted people to make choices about what they want to see, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Everything they've been doing in the last 12 years goes in the opposite direction.

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      David Weir :v_enby: (davidjamesweir@mementomori.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 17:53:52 JST David Weir :v_enby: David Weir :v_enby:
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      @nemobis Thanks for thinking about this! I would not want the Finnish interface language for everything because some translations are really bad and it makes searching for strings of text in the UI harder.

      The simplest solution would be (as @ninafelwitch pointed out) for Google to just stop forcing their translations on the user. This should be a simple opt-out, there's no need for anything fancy.

      However, if they wanted to be clever (and I doubt they do, being clever is a cost centre), then Preferred Languages is an iOS concept, with a well-understood API (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/30293909) - so it is possible and indeed natively implemented to have multiple 'preferred' languages. I have my preferred languages set to English, Finnish, French, Norwegian and Swedish. Google's apps could parse that...

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