Weird behavior with youtube links

2 years ago by l_b_i to c/meta

Has anybody noticed weird behavior with links to youtube? Specifically, instead of the video description, I just see some German text, which translation says is a boilerplate of what youtube is. From yiffit, no image and german text, from pawb, image and accurate description. . This looks like a recent change, everything older than about 2 days ago looks fine.

This is observed from the default desktop website.

Edit: Based on the comment from @Pronell@lemmy.world I would guess youtube made a recent change and the language is generated based on where the lemmy instance is hosted.

Next day edit (July 21): Whatever was causing has reverted. Videos posted the affected days are still messed up, but new posts look like they're working like they used to.

Edit: later in the day. Whatever it is is back.

Pronell 3 points 2 years ago

I've seen this too!

And in Jerboa that same text appears in Cyrillic.

path: 0 11283379, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
l_b_i 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 11283379 11283610, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Darkassassin07 2 points 2 years ago

Same, but English. (Canada)

path: 0 11285107, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
l_b_i 1 point 2 years ago

Hmm, that reinforces whatever it is being location based and not language based. I would need to find another host in an English speaking country for more info. Feddit.uk has text in German.

path: 0 11285107 11285932, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
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