Stop sites from automatically changing language

I live in Belgium, which has two (3) official languages, this causes sites to act funky. I am Dutch speaking, and prefer to read in English.

However, because of my region and because of French being much more prevalent, when I go to e.g. Microsoft and I type in microsoft.com it automatically gets turned into https://www.microsoft.com/fr-be/.

I know I can change the language in the site itself however some sites suck, and it gets annoying to do this every single time.

This is why I was wondering if anyone knows a solution to this, I know about a VPN. But this would really be last resort because of money and speed.

I have already tried this post to no avail.

Thank you in advance

I think I have got an effective work-around for this. You can't stop the language-specific redirect in those websites but can choose to read everything in English and not French. This can be achieved in Chrome, however, I haven't tried in other browsers yet.

Go To Menu>Settings>Languages in Chrome, and do the following:

After that, Click on the option that says "Offer to translate pages in this language" like this:

(here the options are greyed out; it won't be so in your case)

Now, Relaunch the browser. So, next time whenever you visit a page which has language other than English, you will see an option to translate the whole page to English in just one click::

And there you go. So, this is the best that I could find that will work for you. Hope this helps.

Or, if you don't like doing all this and still want to read in English, just install this Google Translate extension. Here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb?hl=en