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

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The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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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.

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldOP
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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!”

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Aa!@lemmy.world
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In all unfairness to these companies, geolocation via IP address is pretty hit or miss sometimes

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Nemeski@lemm.ee
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It shows it in German for me on lemm.ee

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pupupipi@lemmy.world
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it is also german for me

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ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
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Might have to do with cloudstrike?

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldOP
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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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lordnikon@lemmy.world
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what is cloudstrike? I think you mean crowdstrike?

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldOP
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CloudFlare / CrowdStrike. ;)

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SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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This has been worrying me the past day or two also

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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It’s got to be something in the link unfurling process being detected as Russian localized, right?

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