> many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language
Indicating that "the user's actual language" and "en-US" are different. Yes, I extrapolated this to both the browser and the operating system having a different language, maybe it was just one or the other.
> What do the different language browsers on your system
From the parent comment:
> Google has been doing this for almost 20 years. [...] The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was [...]
I don't have any 20 years old browsers to test with, I'm afraid.
If someone has been doing something for 20 years the normal interpretation of that would be they started doing it 20 years ago and are still doing it, and you probably don't need 20 year old browsers to actually test it.
Indicating that "the user's actual language" and "en-US" are different. Yes, I extrapolated this to both the browser and the operating system having a different language, maybe it was just one or the other.
> What do the different language browsers on your system
From the parent comment:
> Google has been doing this for almost 20 years. [...] The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was [...]
I don't have any 20 years old browsers to test with, I'm afraid.