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Sure, it is better than previous years, where they flat out refused to serve the page outside of the US, but it is still odd how much energy they put into stopping users from viewing their sales material, and effectively stopping people from sharing links.

This is the largest web company. You'd think they'd be mindful to keep basic functionality of the world wide web working on their world wide website.


It’s worth noting that kind of behavior because it demonstrates the attitude of the people that designed this web page.

They want you to be signed in to view a sales and information page or else they will waste your time for trying. That kind of regional picker nonsense needs to go back to 1999 where it didn’t belong either but at least it wouldn’t be lingering about like a zombie now.


Does any other e-commerce website (even amazon) force you to login to get details about the thing?

When a customer provides feedback its an opportunity to improve your service, not complain about them.


why are you defending a bad choice? you can just display the information and then suggest a religion picker like everybody else.


They do suggest a region picker?


The link already contains region choice

https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_7?hl=en-US


It gets redirected to another region though (if you are logged-in) and if this region has no pixel 7 thingy then no dice.




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