[Bug]: Setting a different locale does not work as expected about playwright HOT 4 CLOSED

Update 1

I also added this to check what the detected locale is and the result was indeed de-DE, but somehow the redirect still does not happen accordingly.

// Execute JavaScript in the browser context to get the detected locale
  const detectedLocale = await page.evaluate(() => {
    // Access the browser's navigator object to get the language
    return navigator.language;
  });

  console.log('Detected Locale:', detectedLocale);

Update 2

Also checked the request headers and the Accept-Language is indeed de-DE, but then in the response headers I also see this:

Update 3: tried this on other websites as well and I always get redirected based on my real location and not based on the one set by Playwright

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They may be redirecting you based on your IP address or some other logic. The adidas url does redirect me to 'https://www.adidas.com/us'. If you think that Playwright is not changing some settings properly based on locale, please provide a self contained reproduction which we could run locally.

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If that is the case (it most likely is), is there another (better) way to emulate a location by using Playwright, so that we can verify that the redirect happens as expected based on location?

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IP address based geolocation detection can only be emulated on the networking level, so e.g. a proxy might work for you.

Closing since thats not a bug in Playwright.

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