Hei,
Tor opens a site with multi language support mostly in German.
I use updates, bridges, vpn.
There were strange behaviors in the past with bridges too.
Is it possible to get a check on my version of tor?
Thanks
This is happening because you’re probably getting a Tor exit in Germany in the circuit and the concerned website is using geolocation to determine what language it should serve the website in.
related: Why does Google show up in foreign languages? | Tor Project | Support
Try to check if you can tell the website to serve the content in the desired language by changing the url (for example, if applicable here, changing from de to en in the url can help for content in English) or try changing your Tor Circuit by clicking on ‘New Tor circuit for this site’
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Thanks,
-its oringinal an american american address which is published multilingual.
-by starting tor new the language is switching most between german and english.
-the language on the website is fixed with tor but not by another browser.
-I’m not resident of Germany, but of Norway.
-there were problems in the past on correct identifying the bridges by their symbols.
This doesn’t match.
My residence is not Germany.
The Website is multiligually but is changing only
between German or English.
There were problems in the past with Tor bridges which were not
usable. Your staff didn’t get a solution.
when i start a certain site it opens in german language after redirection.
This happaens with Tor, Firefox and other browsers too.
There is no configuration to a german language.
My location is not Germany and my VPN is not my location.
So it seems to be a permanent tracking.
…but there is a conflict with my e mail provider GMX because of protest against
spam. The provider is a German company…
Correction:
All browsers are now being redirected and open with german language!
My system is linux/ubuntu/noble
Definitely not.
All browser react with the same behavior.
Check what your browsers are sending in the Accept-Language request header.
How do i check this?
I found this in the header:
|Accept-Language|en-GB,en;q=0.5|
OK, this doesn’t look German 
Some websites choose the language by identifying the geolocation from an IP address as @ebanam mentioned. If you use Tor Browser (or any browser with SOCKS proxying to Tor) and had an exit router from Germany, the website might have identified German as your language and could have stored it in a cookie. The same applies for using VPN. So clean up cookies could help.
Hi,
no, it doesn’t help.
Could it be an attac? For some month ago I’ve sent a similiar question about
bridges but got no solution. We have checked the symbols but they were not
identically.
I’ve checked the language behavior with seven browser. They all react similiar.
This has nothing to do with cookies.
-My location is not Germany.
-I’m tenant and use internet connection by the owner’s router
So all questions are open.
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If you can share what website this is someone might be able to tell more.
Using bridges will not help with / affect the behavior of this particular website. Using bridges the connection flow is something like:
User → Bridge relay → Middle Relay → Exit Relay → Website
But that said, if you’re using bridges and the corresponding set of bridge-mojis are not what’s intended , that is indeed a separate issue. In that case, please cross-check again whether you’ve entered the bridge address in the correct format (i.e. the address is in the format: obfs4 <IP ADDRESS>:<PORT> <FINGERPRINT> cert=<CERTIFICATE> iat-mode=0 and that there are no line breaks). Raise a support ticket if the issue still persists.
The site:
I cannot reproduce this behavior on my Tor Browser. The website is loading in English just fine, even after changing multiple Tor circuits.
The first time you load the website it will try to serve the content based on geo-localisation, once it loads, doesn’t matter if you change circuits, it sticks to the language initially determined.
However, if you load the base domain (https://www.wsws.org/ without ‘de?redirect=true’) with a new circuit, it will try to determine what language to serve again. In the following picture you can see how the website is served in german despite accessing from Sweden.
It’s just a matter of not loading the redirect string.
Thanks,
The redirection on all browsers is new.
Also Tor was not so unflexible and changed its location.
If this doesn’t matter why should one uses Tor and bridges with circuits.
It seems to be an attac.
…and how does this happen?
Sorry for the late reply.
I suppose strong this is an attack.