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.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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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.
We're all victims of American capitalism
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.
Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).
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.
I wonder what song it was
This sounds like, in the best case, it’d be like one of those Christian alternative-rock festivals, organised to demonstrate that you don’t need the Devil’s music to have fun, where you have bands playing watered-down, Jesused-up versions of punk/emo/metal and some dad in Vans and a studded belt taking the mike between bands to tell everyone that the raddest thing is to obey your parents and abstain from drugs and premarital sex.
A more likely scenario, though, would involve this being to some extent an anti-wokeness hate rally, with conspiracy theories about how the foundations of Western Civilisation are under threat from the gays and communists and, of course, (((those people))).
When evangelicals try to reach young people by sounding cool, it's worse than root canal. "Get down and boogie with Jeezus, he's a totally awesome dude!" 😆😆😆
Closeted Bro Convention
Well now I want to know what the song was.
Pink Pony Club.
Just guessing.
Ram Ranch
Just guessing.
I was gonna guess this
YMCA
Just guessing
I kissed a girl
Just guessing
Anything Jake Hole.
Just guessing
"I love you Mr. Hole." Him, Digbar, and Alex Schor are kinda great ngl. Digbar was my number 3 artist on Spotify wrapped.
A party full of people that are so unsure and afraid of their sexuality that they have to gather together and make a point of it to the world that they are really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really not gay, not even a little bit bi, absolutely bit bi at all!
Okay then, hope you guys have fun, then! Don't check what's happening behind the toilets, though!
I rather enjoyed the song
I bet Grindr crashed from all the extra traffic.
Yeah all of the two dozen people
It's not a very well made app, so that's still believable.
Boys, I da ho, sounds very straight to me