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Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.orgU This user is from outside of this forum
    user224@lemmy.sdf.orgU This user is from outside of this forum
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    Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

    Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries' IPs work. Probably don't want to deal with privacy protection.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.orgU [email protected]

      Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

      Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries' IPs work. Probably don't want to deal with privacy protection.

      F This user is from outside of this forum
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      If I were to guess, it’s because they don’t wanna deal with hosting global amounts of video traffic, so for international links, it just forwards it to YouTube, which is much better suited for that.

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        If I were to guess, it’s because they don’t wanna deal with hosting global amounts of video traffic, so for international links, it just forwards it to YouTube, which is much better suited for that.

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        Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).

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        • user224@lemmy.sdf.orgU [email protected]

          Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

          Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries' IPs work. Probably don't want to deal with privacy protection.

          gedaliyah@lemmy.worldG This user is from outside of this forum
          gedaliyah@lemmy.worldG This user is from outside of this forum
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          Unfortunately, a lot of local American news sources have opted out of serving pages to the EU for privacy reasons. Kind of disturbing what that means for Americans.

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          • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldG [email protected]

            Unfortunately, a lot of local American news sources have opted out of serving pages to the EU for privacy reasons. Kind of disturbing what that means for Americans.

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            We're all victims of American capitalism

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            • user224@lemmy.sdf.orgU [email protected]

              Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).

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              Not necessarily. They can have a redirect link without necessarily blocking the original link. There are ways to redirect traffic based on where it’s from it doesn’t mean it becomes impossible to access that source directly.

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