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I'm an American in Brazil and all of my US websites (e.g. walmart.com, google) are defauting to a .com.br. How can I block this from happening?

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I'm an American in Brazil using a Brazilian ISP. When I access my US websites..eg walmart.com; google, etc., they are defaulting to .com.br (when available) and the sites, of course are always in Protuguese. Please advise how I can access only my US ...... .com....not .com.br sites.

I'm an American in Brazil using a Brazilian ISP. When I access my US websites..eg walmart.com; google, etc., they are defaulting to .com.br (when available) and the sites, of course are always in Protuguese. Please advise how I can access only my US ...... .com....not .com.br sites.

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Hello Zanman, if you searching from search bar, you can try Mycroft Project plugins, find what you need: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

thank you

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Google has a link at the bottom of the "local" home page to use the global site. This should be remembered using a cookie. I don't know whether other sites have a similar feature.

As a workaround, some users will sign up with a proxy service to re-route all their requests through a U.S.-based IP address. I don't have any personal recommendations on those, other than to choose whom to trust carefully because they see all of your traffic.

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Hello Zanman, if you searching from search bar, you can try Mycroft Project plugins, find what you need: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

thank you

You can try and download SecurityKISS which is a proxy and select a USA location. It shouldn't take long and SecurityKISS is free and trusted.