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<h2>Select language</h2>

<p>Dear visitor!  This page provides a means to specify
 your preferred
language; this selection will have  priority over the preferences set
in  your  browser.  In order to do this,
<a href="#explanation">we set a cookie</a>;
you can reset it with the first option
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and  your browser  will reset it at  the end  of your session.</p>

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<li>
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Reset
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}en' title='English'> [en] "
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English
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<li>
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Afrikaans
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}ar' title='العربية'> [ar] "
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Arabic
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}az' title='Azərbaycanca'> [az] "
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Azerbaijani
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<li>
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Bulgarian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}bn' title='বাংলা'> [bn] "
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Bengali
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<li>
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Bosnian
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<li>
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Catalan
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<li>
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Czech
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}da' title='dansk'> [da] "
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Danish
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}de' title='Deutsch'> [de] "
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German
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}el' title='ελληνικά'> [el] "
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Greek
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}eo' title='Esperanto'> [eo] "
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Esperanto
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}es' title='español'> [es] "
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Spanish
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}fa' title='فارسی'> [fa] "
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Persian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}fi' title='suomi'> [fi] "
   -->
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Finnish
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}fr' title='français'> [fr] "
   -->
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French
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 class="gnun-split"></span></a></li>
<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}gl' title='galego'> [gl] "
   -->
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Galician
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}he' title='עברית'> [he] "
   -->
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Hebrew
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}hr' title='hrvatski'> [hr] "
   -->
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Croatian
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}hu' title='magyar'> [hu] "
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Hungarian
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}id'
   title='Bahasa Indonesia'> [id] "  -->
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Indonesian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}it' title='italiano'> [it] "
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Italian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}ja' title='日本語'> [ja] "
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Japanese
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}kn' title='ಕನ್ನಡ'> [kn] "
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Kannada
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}ko' title='한국어'> [ko] "
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Korean
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}lt' title='lietuvių'> [lt] "
   -->
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Lithuanian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}mk' title='македонски'> [mk] "
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Macedonian
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<li>
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 var="link" value="${link_head}ml' title='മലയാളം'> [ml] "
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Malayalam
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<li>
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   title='norsk (bokmål)'> [nb] "  -->
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Norwegian (Bokmål)
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<li>
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Dutch
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<li>
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   title='norsk (nynorsk)'> [nn] "  -->
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Norwegian (Nynorsk)
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<li>
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Polish
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<li>
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   title='português do Brasil'> [pt-br] "  -->
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Brazilian Portuguese
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<li>
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Romanian
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<li>
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Russian
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<li>
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Slovak
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<li>
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Slovenian
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<li>
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Albanian
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<li>
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Serbian
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<li>
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Swedish
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<li>
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Tamil
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<li>
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Tagalog
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<li>
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Turkish
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<li>
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Ukrainian
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}uz' title='Oʻzbekcha'> [uz] "
   -->
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Uzbek
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}zh-cn' title='简体中文'> [zh-cn] "
   -->
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Chinese (Simplified)
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<li>
<!--#set
 var="link" value="${link_head}zh-tw' title='繁體中文'> [zh-tw] "
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Chinese (Traditional)
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<h3 id="explanation">How do you know my native language?  Are you spying on us?</h3>

  <p>As you browse the Web,  your browser sends a  header with the request
of any document
that indicates your language preference.  This is
usually something  you can configure in 
your browser settings.  If you
downloaded a browser localized in Danish, it probably came
preconfigured to send <code>Accept-Language: da</code>.  Our servers
are configured to respond  to this
header by providing the page  in the requested language, if the  translation exists; otherwise, the original
English page is sent.</p>

<p>We recently added a “Set Language” link on the top of
each page to allow you  to override that setting  and “fix”
a certain  language different from  your browser's default setting. For
example, you could choose <em>English</em> to browse gnu.org  even if
your browser is set to Danish. This feature uses a cookie.</p>

<p>If you're concerned about your privacy on the Web you can try the
Tor Browser Bundle available from
<a href="https://torproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://torproject.org/</a>.
Among many other improvements over generic browsers with regard to
privacy, the TBB comes configured to appear to be like a
Windows-based, US-English browser.</p> 
<p>You're right that the language setting of your browser can be used
by some sites or third-parties  to identify your specific browser and
target you for advertising.  Tor

provides the safest way we know to avoid such targeting.
Nevertheless, the GNU project does not use this
nor any other targeting methods, not even cookies (exception made of
the optional language override mentioned above): <strong>we simply
care for our users  and  have no interest
in spying on you</strong>.  The
<code>Accept-Language</code> header is a common way to localize
contents according to user preferences.  You can
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<p>We also do not track  IP addresses of our visitors,  and the site
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Javascript.  Rest assured that the GNU project and the FSF are
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