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Ideally a browser should ask for languages and country when being installed, in order to correctly fill the Accept-Language field. But that doesn't happen because it would introduce friction.


Why? Browsers already apply the setting from the operating system which is correct in almost 100% of cases, and if you need more options you can change it in the settings.


> Ideally a browser should ask for languages and country when being installed

Yet in reality, a browser asks for language before you download it. (Or buy on the cases that come pre-installed.)




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