Youtube links suddenly showing Russian text?
Youtube links suddenly showing Russian text?
I noticed this too yesterday when I posted a youtube link on Lemmy. Couldn't get the Cyrilic blurb to go away, so switched to a piped.video link. Probably for the best anyway.
6ReplyTalking it over with Lemmy.World admins, we're thinking it's because the server is in Finland and YouTube is going "Eh, Russia, close enough!"
10ReplyIn all unfairness to these companies, geolocation via IP address is pretty hit or miss sometimes
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This has been worrying me the past day or two also
5ReplyIt's got to be something in the link unfurling process being detected as Russian localized, right?
5ReplyMight have to do with cloudstrike?
2Replywhat is cloudstrike? I think you mean crowdstrike?
2ReplyCloudFlare / CrowdStrike. ;)
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Don't think so, the Cloudstrike IPs for lemmy.world are in Canada, and the server proper is in Finland. 🤷♂️
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It shows it in German for me on lemm.ee
1Replyit is also german for me
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