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How to keep firefox from redirecting to county specific websites?

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I live in Korea and whenever I go to a website that has an US version and a Korea version, like products that are sold in the US and Korea, Firefox automatically redirects me to the Korea website. For example, this time I used this website: burtsbees.com it automatically redirects me to burtsbeeskorea.co.kr, It is not just this website but others as well.

How can I keep this from happening.

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A few times a week

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I live in Korea and whenever I go to a website that has an US version and a Korea version, like products that are sold in the US and Korea, Firefox automatically redirects me to the Korea website. For example, this time I used this website: burtsbees.com it automatically redirects me to burtsbeeskorea.co.kr, It is not just this website but others as well. How can I keep this from happening. == This happened == A few times a week == I search for websites

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Hello Jon.

You can go into Tools > Options > Content > Languages to select your preferred languages, but if a site redirects to country specific language based on your IP address, I think there is no way to prevent it. Except maybe some extension, but it will most likely be site specific (like Google, for example). You can search at addons.mozilla.org.

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Sites usually have a link to go to an international page or select a language. Such settings are stored in a cookie that you must keep by making an allow exception. Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Exceptions"