• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      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!”

      • Aa!@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

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