# Why do website speak to me in German if using Brave? **URL:** \ **Category:** Desktop Support\ **Tags:** macos\ **Created:** [April 29, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080 "2024-04-29T09:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marcofama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/marcofama/32/178999_2.png) [@marcofama](https://community.brave.app/u/marcofama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/1 "2024-04-29T09:02:59Z")
Hey guys, sorry to bother, have a quick one. I’m basically happy with Brave but there is one thing which annoys me so much that is: website “believe” somehow I’m German and provide me with their page in German. Trying to login to Google Auth with a third party software? Cool, the popup is displayed in German Wanna login to say Yahoo? good, all strings turn to German (and I am native ITA and speak ENG and SPA so honestly I’m not even sure where this comes from) Locale is set to Italian and English. What else should I check? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![justsomeone1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@justsomeone1](https://community.brave.app/u/justsomeone1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/2 "2024-04-29T09:15:26Z")
Hello @marcofama do you use vpn/proxy/tor ? if yes then the server of the server or the exit node of tor are in germany does yahoo change it’s language before login or after login? ---
**Author:** ![marcofama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/marcofama/32/178999_2.png) [@marcofama](https://community.brave.app/u/marcofama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/3 "2024-04-29T10:05:50Z")
Thanks for the quick one! Question is: how do I know? Not using TOR or PROXY that’s for sure (if I browse with Chrome all is ok instead)… Not sure about the VPN but if I click on VPN in the upper right side of the browser I get a banner to enjoy a trial so I assume not? ---
**Author:** ![justsomeone1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@justsomeone1](https://community.brave.app/u/justsomeone1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/4 "2024-04-29T11:40:47Z")
you welcome @marcofama then i assume you do not use any of those if you go to `brave://settings/languages` under `Preferred languages` `Websites in your languages` is it english and italian there or german? could you try in new private window and see if it work fine there or not if it work fine then most probably it cache issue or one of your extensions causing the issue or either need to clear your cache/cookies or disable all extension then enable them one by one till you get the one causing it hope some of those help and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![marcofama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/marcofama/32/178999_2.png) [@marcofama](https://community.brave.app/u/marcofama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/5 "2024-04-29T13:23:44Z")
I checked the preferences you mentioned and have 4 languages, 3 times ENG and 1 ITA: ![Shared with Droplr](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/a/f/afc2b8818f931d376cd9a578817d3805b249c46b.png) I tried Private nav pointing to [mail.yahoo.com](http://mail.yahoo.com) as an example, and see this [https://d.pr/i/LPz4OI](https://d.pr/i/LPz4OI) like the system turns the URL to > **[Yahoo](https://login.yahoo.com/?.src=ym&lang=de-DE&done=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com%2F)** > > Das erstklassige Yahoo Mail, für die neuesten lokalen, überregionalen und internationalen Nachrichten, Finanzen, Sport, Musik, Kino ... Mehr vom Internet, mehr vom Leben. so you see, lang=de-DE for example is appended automatically 😕 I recall I have tried the VPN with Brave tho, in the past, do u know how I can check if it’s still active somehow / somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![justsomeone1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@justsomeone1](https://community.brave.app/u/justsomeone1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/6 "2024-04-29T16:00:10Z")
could you go to the menu then `more tools` then either add new profile or open guest profile and without changing any setting see if it open yahoo as it should be or not if it work then go to your normal profile and clear cache and cookies go to `brave://settings/clearBrowserData` and choose advanced then pick the all time and make sure cookies and cache is selected and clear it then disable all extension and try again to check if vpn is on go to [https://www.whatismyip.com/](https://www.whatismyip.com/) and check which location it report hope that help and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![marcofama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/marcofama/32/178999_2.png) [@marcofama](https://community.brave.app/u/marcofama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/7 "2024-04-29T16:47:28Z")
so first of all let me tell you that I am awesomely impressed by your kindness and the time you are dedicating me, please know that I truly appreciate it! Guess what? ### My IP Location: Frankfurt am Main, HE DE And I’m in Italy and the other browser reports nearby Milan which is way more accurate!!! So Brave is somehow hijacking my traffic, rerouting through a proxy in Germany I’d lean to believe, am I wrong?! Again, I believe the first days of my Brave tests I remember I managed to activate their free VPN and now I remember I was seen as from Germany from a site I couldn’t visit from ITA from my provider. Could it be I never deactivated it? If so, where would I check the free VPN service from Brave is still on? I can’t find anything here ---
**Author:** ![marcofama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/marcofama/32/178999_2.png) [@marcofama](https://community.brave.app/u/marcofama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/8 "2024-04-29T16:54:37Z")
I found the “solution” or I should say the reason behind this. And trust me, it’s totally absurd!! It was not Brave’s free VPN but DuckDuckGo’s, which for some weird reason (don’t know why!!) it was active (although I’m not running at startup or using the browser at all)!! Dear God… at least I found it, and that’s why I wanted to share with you all (you can never know if this happens in the future to others) Mate, thank you from the bottom of my heart to give me the input I needed to figure this out. Lots of love from Italy 🙂 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/8/d/8db92e78b82fcccaa8e46ea20a1a95f911497091.png) ---
**Author:** ![justsomeone1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@justsomeone1](https://community.brave.app/u/justsomeone1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/9 "2024-04-29T19:43:20Z")
you very welcome @marcofama and thanks a lot for your nice words and kindness glad to know that you figured it out well done thanks again and have a nice day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/why-do-website-speak-to-me-in-german-if-using-brave/546080/10 "2024-05-29T19:43:43Z")
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