Its the same for Germany. If I want to use fontshop.com the url will directed to fontshop.de. But if I try it for a third time the .com domain will coming up.

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Have/had this problem over here in Germany too, whenever i wanted to go to fontshop.com i got redirected to fontshop.de. Being grown up (well, almost) i usually know where i want to go and why (much better preview option. in this case…).
For me it always worked to just enter the FS.com-url again after having been redirected to FS.de, hit enter, done.

And yes, i find it truly annoying too, the internet is an open, international kind of thing and websites that redirect me elsewhere simply because of my IP-address or browser language are somewhat out of order in terms of usability, compliance with user expectations, etc. Plus it just doesn’t fit in the general picture i have of FS as a very helpful, customer oriented company.

I truly hope FS will do something about that, soon.

A double-click on the URL will do the trick.

Ralf

Hey, Ralf, can you give us a list of, let’s say, three exact browsing or computing environments where one may “double-click” on a URL?

Can you explain what that does compared to, say, clicking on a URL?

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Hey, Ralf, can you give us a list of, let’s say, three exact browsing or computing environments where one may “double-click” on a URL?

I can’t. In HTML there is no other use of a double-click, than bypassing a FontShop redirect. ;-)

But it works for me in any browser or newsreader. I don’t know enough about FontShops redirect mechanism to tell you why this works. Maybe it’s just a bug and the redirect doesn’t work if you fire multiple calls to the website, or maybe they included this trick on purpose as a backdoor, so the guys in Berlin can look at their international sites once in a while ...

Ralf

Alex,

We feel your pain. FontShop is working on a solution for keeping content open to all, while still directing customers to their local FontShop when necessary (purchasing). Unfortunately, this will take some time. In the meantime, Ralf’s trick should work.