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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months 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] 10 points 5 months 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] 3 points 5 months ago

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