Default search engine displays all the results in Spanish

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by admin

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I followed the FAQ to change the default country, but for some reason it's not working and I have no idea what I missed, here are the steps that I did:

1. opened Opera, went to Settings > Privacy & Security > Privacy > Clear browsing data and checked Browsing history, Download history, Cookies and other site data, Cached images and files and selected from beginning of time, and pressed Clear browsing data button.

2. closed Opera

3. changed Local State file as instructed, and the new data is "location":{"country":"us","country_from_server":"US", but when I open Opera again, the search still shows in Spanish and on the right hand side, there's a pop up message asking if you want to change to English.

Did I miss some steps?

[operadesktopqa]

operadesktopqa last edited by

Sometimes editing lines in this file isn't good idea because of bad file coding after saving. Simple editors doesn't respect original file coding.

Try to change "Local State" file to "Local State Old".

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Sorry, I'm lost, what happens if I just change the name of the file, I suspect that Google uses your location to direct their advertising, so if I'm living in Spain, every single time, Google will use your current location to direct their ads, if you don't "hard code" your preferred location in a file. Am I missing something?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Something similar. They are tracking your Locale and information related to nearby vendors or accessible vendors. If you want the content to be displayed in English all the time, either use explicitly google.com and nothing else, or try changing your Windows Locale from Spain to UK or US.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What is your default search engine? If Google, it's using google.com or it's redirecting to some local Google page?

What editor are you using to edit 'Local State'? I recommend using Notepad++.

Also, did you change the site preferences to show results in English for you?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

That's right, I'm using Google, and already tried to use google.com, it changed EVERY SINGLE time to google.es.

Yes, I'm using Notepad++ for editing, after changed the file, went back to confirm, and it showed location":{"country":"us","countryfromserver":"US", which I assume the change is accepted, but still when I try to do a search, Spanish google came up and not in US, what else can I do?

Yes, the preference has been changed too.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here goes one more unhappy Google user, I'm replacing Google with DuckDuckGo, tired of doing things their way, regardless of user feedback, already dropped gmail, now it's Google search, Google will be the next MS!!!!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

what else can I do?

Try cleaning cache and cookies. Also disable geolocation for Google.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Can you please tell me how to disable Google's geolocation? I've tried cache and cookies to no avail. As far as I know, Google won't let you change it, I've tried also change settings, and also useless, everytime you shut down the pc, it goes back to Spanish, it's like a nightmare that never goes away.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Can you please tell me how to disable Google's geolocation?

Did you ever allowed it? Check in settings > Sites > Local > Manage exceptions.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I don't remember allowing it, but you never know, those crappy sites are sneaky, they install/enable it by using small prints or during updates.

Sorry, I don't have sites under setting, when I click on settings (right side bottom) in google search, I have the following options:
Search settings
Advanced search
History
Search help
Send feedback
but no Sites, if I can attach a screenshot, I can show you what I meant, are you using Windows 10? It shouldn't matter which OS, it's in the browser.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Sorry, I don't have sites under setting, when I click on settings (right side bottom) in google search

We are talking about Opera's settings.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Sorry, under Settings > Websites > Location > Ask me when a site tries to track my physical location (recommended) was selected, now I changed it to Do not allow any site to track my physical location.

Also, under Manage Exceptions there's one entry: https://www.google.es:443, and under Behavior shows block, so I assume it'll block Google ES to track me, right?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

so I assume it'll block Google ES to track me, right?

Yep but it may also mean that the redirection is not related to geolocation.

Can you try adding google.com and see what happens?