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Re-routing to German websites

bozz2006

bozz2006

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Hi all, I'm thinking maybe my son did it, but what happens when I type in yahoo.com or ign.com (for instance) is I get automatically re-routed to the German versions of those websites. Any help to figure out how to make this stop is greatly appreciated!!
 
bozz2006 said:
Hi all, I'm thinking maybe my son did it, but what happens when I type in yahoo.com or ign.com (for instance) is I get automatically re-routed to the German versions of those websites. Any help to figure out how to make this stop is greatly appreciated!!
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Clear your browser cache in settings. Settings -> Safari -> Clear Cookies and Data.

If that doesn't fix it then it's probably an issue beyond your iPad. I'd be looking at the router DNS settings.
 
Ok, i'll try that when I get home. I wouldn't know where to start looking for problems with the router's DNS settings though. I have an Airport, so in the past when there have been issues, the utility pops up to let me know.

And this only happens on my iPad. Not either of my MacBooks or my wife's or my iPhone. If it were a router problem, do you think it would affect all the devices on connected to the network?
 
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bozz2006 said:
And this only happens on my iPad. Not either of my MacBooks or my wife's or my iPhone. If it were a router problem, do you think it would affect all the devices on connected to the network?
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No if it was the router all devices would have the same issue. However you can set DNS settings on your iPad but I would image this slightly beyond a childs accident.

How they manage these things I have no idea, it's quite brilliant really. 🙂
 
RobesNo1 said:
No if it was the router all devices would have the same issue. However you can set DNS settings on your iPad but I would image this slightly beyond a childs accident.

How they manage these things I have no idea, it's quite brilliant really. 🙂
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You know I'd forgotten you can change the DNS settings on an iPad. That's good to know for those of us who are fans of opendns.
 
Wirelessly posted

Go to
Settings>General>international>region format

Make sure it is set to US or UK
I was able to duplicate your problem by changing it to Germany.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked it out... I was already set on US. Son of a....
 
I´ve got the same problem vice versa! Sometimes a google search only leads to english websites. Clearing the cache helps for me.
Weird...
 
On ign.com, I found that once I visited the German site, I got redirected there every subsequent time I tried to go to ign.com. It reverted back to the US site once I opened the US site again (link is at the bottom of the page). I wasn't able to replicate the issue with yahoo, but the link to the yahoo international sites are also at the bottom of the page, among a whole lot of other links. I'd try following that link to see if it'll let you go back to the US site.
 
Night Spring said:
On ign.com, I found that once I visited the German site, I got redirected there every subsequent time I tried to go to ign.com. It reverted back to the US site once I opened the US site again (link is at the bottom of the page). I wasn't able to replicate the issue with yahoo, but the link to the yahoo international sites are also at the bottom of the page, among a whole lot of other links. I'd try following that link to see if it'll let you go back to the US site.
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Looks like that did the trick! Funny, I had tried that previously and it did nothing. i wonder if clearing cookies and then clicking the US link was the right recipe. Thanks for the help!
 
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