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It's also such an broken idea that I can only imagine it comes from american tech bros who have a childish view of the world.
"Yes this area is germany people in germany speak german so websites must german problem solved"
No:
As a native speaker of German: lol
I mainly notice this with YouTube ads when in a foreign country. YouTube, you have my viewing history, you know I don't watch videos in Italian or Hungarian because I don't understand those languages well, so why are you advertising to me in those languages just because my IP geolocates to Italy or Hungary???
I so hate the bad translations. Please just give me the app in whatever native language it was built in. And if I can't understand that language, let me switch to English. It's awful to use an app and have to translate everything yourself back to the native language to figure out what they actually meant and what went wrong in the translation.
And it's especially annoying when errors and such are also translated. These often make even less sense and when trying to search the internet, it really helps if the error is in the language of largest user base.
I’m an American tech worker (not bro thankfully) and I’ve seen the poor translation issue firsthand: using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.
I also happen to be multilingual and it’s just unbearable watching some of this stuff play out. Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard. I wish companies would invest in translation services instead of relying on Google or some other equally bad service.
This is what they call "modern cloud-based solutions". Except, now it's "modern AI-based solutions" - same shit with a different label.
I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?
Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.