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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
That's because the dumb-shits are using geoip to determine language rather than the browser's language acceptance policy sent in its headers to the server when requesting the URL.
Defective *command and control* thinking 
Code:
https://messaging-notifications.api.nytimes.com/svc/message/v1/list/global.json?_=1500829171846
GET /svc/message/v1/list/global.json?_=1500829171846 HTTP/1.1
Host: messaging-notifications.api.nytimes.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/23/us/politics/trump-russia-sanctions.html
Origin: https://www.nytimes.com
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
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this really annoys the shit out of me for years. why use IP when you can detect browser (or OS) language?
worst offender for me is the Samsung store on my phone - which i get in Czech only with no option to change.