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Originally Posted by ecchi
Do remember that by filtering by browser language you are NOT filtering by country, but by the language the surfer is happiest with. Most people set their browser to the language they grew up speaking, even if they speak English, live in an English speaking country, and use English 99.9% of the time. For example, using this code you are blocking your site from the majority of American Chinese, if you are redirecting them to a Chinese sponsor you are throwing away this traffic, because your Chinese sponsor will be set up to accept Chinese currency and American Chinese will only have $US in their pocket.
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Yes, I do realize that filtering by browser language isn't the most accurate, and if I were doing more extensive filtering I'd use other methods.
As for American Chinese, while I have no data, I don't really believe that an overwhelming majority would have their browser language set to Chinese. Even so, we're talking about a very small percentage of what is already a relatively small percentage of my incoming traffic. Simply not enough to worry about.
2008-01-26, 12:12 PM
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