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Why does this thread come around AGAIN and AGAIN to the foreign language issue?
The fact that I am surfing FROM Japan doesn't mean that the pages I am LOOKING AT are in Japanese.
If the free hosts in question had deleted Japanese pages, then this would be relevant.
As it is, they are "hiding" English-language pages from non-English-language countries - which is NOT covered by their terms and conditions as far as I can see.
Can we please not confuse the issue with this "pages in a foreign language" nonsense, because it doesn't even have a passing relevance to what I'm trying to investigate.
Just in case, I'll spell it out one last time:-
SCENARIO A:
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Situation: English-language gallery hosted on free host that doesn't skim foreign traffic
US surfer sees: the gallery
Japanese (as in "person with a Japanese IP address") sees: the SAME gallery
Happiness factor: 100%
SCENARIO B:
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Situation: English-language gallery hosted on free host that skims foreign traffic
US surfer sees: the gallery
Japanese (as in "person with a Japanese IP address") sees: a dialer, popup hell or other advertising page
Happiness factor: 50%
Let me add one more thing: this is all done based on IP address as I use a pure English-language version of Windows 98 Second Edition for browsing (purchased from the UK so *identical* to the version you may be using)
I hope this finally sheds enough illumination that we can get back to the main point of this thread!
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