why are some film titles in spanish on my desktop and ok on my iPad ?

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some of my film titles on my list are shown as in spanish.

this only happens on my desktop account. ok on iPad.

why is this. ?

my local is set to UK (though I do live in spain) (in both preference places)

iPad - see basic instinct

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on computer

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Robin Bonathan

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Posted 3 years ago

3 years ago

Col Needham, Official Rep

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Sorry for the inconvenience. This is a known issue and it is tricky to provide the best experience due to the way we store some of the information about original titles and local titles.

Until we have a full solution, our recommendation is to go to your site settings at https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general and on the menu "Title display country" please choose "Original" which is the first item on the menu. This will block the localization of titles which should improve things, even though there will still be some issues.

2017-12-26T17:39:57+00:00

Robin Bonathan

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I am on UK setting on this page.

I dont understand why my desktop shows some titles in spanish where as the iPad does not as I presume they are both using the same.

all the titles are international ones.

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2017-12-26T18:04:25+00:00

Col Needham, Official Rep

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No sorry, the desktop site tries to be smarter than it should be in localizing titles, so it is also taking your IP address into account and any settings in your browser which, given you are in Spain, may be mistaken as hints you wish to see Spanish content. The whole thing needs to be redone on the web site and there are some flaws in the way we model title languages to address too, sorry.

2017-12-26T19:49:58+00:00

Robin Bonathan

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no I wish to see UK content.

Thats why I have set my preferences to UK.

I have approx 20 titles out of 468 which are showing in spanish.

let me know if you wish to see titles.