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Can I add a category for your wall of shame? Services that couple language and location, so that even though they have done the work of having an English localization, it's not available in my location.

Financial services and airlines are the worst offenders. SAS, Degiro, Amazon off the top of my head all do this.

Degiro has the added bonus of totally breaking under Google Translate so I went to the trouble of using a browser extension to rewrite the request for their localisation strings file to fetch the English version. I'm sure there are some legal disclaimers that are missing here and there but it works fine.



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