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Why youtube links are in french? Is this related to the servers being hosted in France? (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago by RNAi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

reminder

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

oui. the links are scraped server side which idk is a good idea.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If the browser scraped it, youtube would see our IP addresses

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Good luck I’m behind seven proxies

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 months ago

Its German for me and that's our instance's server host location so you're right.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

For the Olympics

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F*ench disgost

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

You can seethe all you want but we owe our lifeblood to Melenchon squeezing himself into our server rack and defending it from gladio operatives via his mac-10

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

I thought I had gotten drunk and turned youtube or some part of my system into French. Glad I'm not the only one.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Oh thank God it wasn't just me

[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

i've been seeing them in German, but i believe the dbzer0 host is also in France.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I noticed that too. Maybe it's in french for LATAM/Asia? And German for Europe?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm sure there is a take to be had about that, but I can't craft it, something about colonialism surely

[–] huf@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

cant the youtube embed trickery send an Accept-Language header to youtube to tweak the language?

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Seems like a good reason to substitute Invidious links. They actually embed a text blurb, at least in chatrooms.

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Look into the french connection.