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Youtube links suddenly showing Russian text? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's got to be something in the link unfurling process being detected as Russian localized, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This has been worrying me the past day or two also

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Might have to do with cloudstrike?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

what is cloudstrike? I think you mean crowdstrike?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Don't think so, the Cloudstrike IPs for lemmy.world are in Canada, and the server proper is in Finland. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It shows it in German for me on lemm.ee

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Talking 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!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

In all unfairness to these companies, geolocation via IP address is pretty hit or miss sometimes