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Why youtube links are in french? Is this related to the servers being hosted in France? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by RNAi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

reminder

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Good luck I’m behind seven proxies

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 23 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

For the Olympics

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

F*ench disgost

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 6 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

Oh thank God it wasn't just me

[–] onoira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

Look into the french connection.