Problem started with watching About That on the train crashes in Spain(1), the host kept pronouncing LZB as LCB, I have no idea why but I only figured this out because I needed subtitles to understand his accent.

Having an accent is fine but I figured somewhere in the production pipeline someone should have informed him of the letter and redubbed segments, since it didn't happen I decided to write in. Apparently it's using a Microsoft sign in. No part of Canada's public should be using Microsoft products but especially for something so trivial. This was discovered when [2] clicking a link to their help centre [3]. They also use Cloudflare on their site which is again a piece of American tech that they shouldn't be using. Speaking of which, I would have used the gem link instead of youtube but it requires an account so I will include it as [4] for the purposes of url gore.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akSp50z3vg4

[2] https://faq.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/articles/360044045414-How-do-I-make-a-comment-ask-a-question-or-share-my-opinion-about-CBC-or-Radio-Canada-programming

[3]https://login.microsoftonline.com/551ebe7c-477d-4607-b9a6-101ee365e775/saml2?RelayState=https%3A%2F%2Fcbchelp.cbc.ca%2Fhc%2Fen-ca%2Farticles%2F115001219053-Contact-Us&brand_id=844387&SAMLRequest=fZFPS8NAEMXv%2FRTL3jfJpmlLlyYltAiBKtKqB2%2Fr7pQG90%2Fc2dTqp5dGhQrq%0AdeY93szvLZYna8gRArbelZQnGV1WowVKazpR9%2FHgtvDSA0ZyssahGBYl7YMT%0AXmKLwkkLKKISu%2Fp6I%2FIkE13w0Stv6IXlf4dEhBBb7yhp1iU9GwLLYQ5a7Tnb%0AT7IxK0DOmCw0MC3lVM%2FVpJjPx5Q0iD00DqN0saR5lk8Z54wXd1kuspng%2BSMl%0AD9%2Ff5UlGSf0dtvIOewthB%2BHYKrjfbkp6iLFDkabqSR3AdMk7OA34nChvU6kU%0AIKbn62g1EBJDeqh%2BUS%2FSS8EXzxtpoVnfetOqN1Ib419XAWSEksbQAyVXPlgZ%0A%2F2bFEz5MWs32g1SAla2ptQ6ASNPqM%2FVncdXoAw%3D%3D%0A

[4] https://login.cbc.radio-canada.ca/bef1b538-1950-4283-9b27-b096cbc18070/B2C_1A_SSO_Login_CBC/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=fc05b0ee-3865-4400-a3cc-3da82c330c23&nonce=d8ee2466-1244-4440-a3a1-079f4806b492&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgem.cbc.ca%2Fauth-changed&scope=openid+offline_access+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Femail+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.create+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.delete+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.info+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.modify+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.reset-password+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.send-confirmation-email+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.write+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fmedia-drmt+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fmedia-meta+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fmedia-validation+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fmedia-validation.read+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fmetrik+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Foidc4ropc+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fott-profiling+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fott-subscription+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fprofile+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fsubscriptions.validate+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fsubscriptions.write+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Ftoutv+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Ftoutv-presentation+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Ftoutv-profiling+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Ftestapiwithjwtendpoint.admin+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fid.account.info+https%3A%2F%2Frcmnb2cprod.onmicrosoft.com%2F84593b65-0ef6-4a72-891c-d351ddd50aab%2Fcmp.digest&response_type=code&response_mode=fragment&response_mode_value=fragment&state=YTFmODAyZTctMjI1ZC00ODk0LWJkMWQtNmE0NDhmNzdkMzdifHsiYWN0aW9uIjoibG9naW4iLCJyZXR1cm5VcmwiOiIvYWJvdXQtdGhhdC13aXRoLWFuZHJldy1jaGFuZyJ9&state_value=YTFmODAyZTctMjI1ZC00ODk0LWJkMWQtNmE0NDhmNzdkMzdifHsiYWN0aW9uIjoibG9naW4iLCJyZXR1cm5VcmwiOiIvYWJvdXQtdGhhdC13aXRoLWFuZHJldy1jaGFuZyJ9&ui_locales=en&cv=fdfb3763-d4d6-4147-a505-1fe01a8ed029&code_challenge=WdHR3SSrSaSEIGWvuqIF17V3ACFA2mhSl8SEEpsf1Xw&code_challenge_method=S256

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[–] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

Reading the title: I disagree with this.

After reading the body / post: I completely agree with this.

There's way too many companies in Canada that use Microsoft for their email (which some consider to be extremely important, even the CBC accepts story tips through email, granted they do accept tips through SecureDrop).

Deflect (not affiliated) is a Canadian alternative to Cloudflare, but you have to pay for it (and many may think why pay for something when you can get an even better alternative for free).

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago*

    To be fair we were using Cloudflare, as an alternative we tried Deflect and it ended up not meeting our expectations. It was adding almost a second of delay to serve dynamic content. Lemmy is heavily dynamic, and not much can be cached.

    In the end it wasn't worth it for us, we decided to drop them and go with Anubis to protect the instance from bots.

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