German Facebook link?

[bigdogg1]

Need IT help . For the last year or so, every Facebook link posted this site appears as if it came from Germany! I finally had the guts months ago to click one and they open as expected.

I just posted our boat, linking the Facebook link, only to be informed they look German as well. WTF?

Here is a screenshot of what I receive and also apparently what happens when I attach a link. MacBook Air computer. Any thoughts?

 

[Gong Show]

I thought it was just my phone doing that, thanks for this, saves me interrogating my kids as to what the hell they did to my phone to make craigslist german.

 

[wildmanyeah]

seems like it's probably a language setting

 

[bigdogg1]

seems like it's probably a language setting

On this forum or FB? Reason I ask is that when we fwd FB posts on messenger and elsewhere from our FB page, they stay normal. Only seems to be on this platform.

 

[Aquaholic]

It started after the most recent website update here, perhaps coincidentally. I asked admin about it but don’t remember a response.

 

[Aces]

Need IT help . For the last year or so, every Facebook link posted this site appears as if it came from Germany! I finally had the guts months ago to click one and they open as expected.

I just posted our boat, linking the Facebook link, only to be informed they look German as well. WTF?

Here is a screenshot of what I receive and also apparently what happens when I attach a link. MacBook Air computer. Any thoughts?

View attachment 85953

I get it too

 

[Aquaholic]

Go to the "Boats on Used Victoria and Other Areas" thread and notice the recent FB linked posts for boats, they have the German language.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Oh yeah I see it to now, too weird

 

[chris73]

And why is this a problem!????

 

[bigdogg1]

And why is this a problem!????

Not many can spracken ze deutsch

 

[tekrunr]

Yeah, ditto....made me nervous about security of the configuration settings....

 

[Sea Chaser]

@chrisp

 

[Aquaholic]

Trying it from a link from my phone, not pc this time, to see if the Facebook Marketplace German text shows or not. My location is set to Vancouver.

登录 Facebook

登录 Facebook，与好友、家人和认识的人分享和建立联系。

www.facebook.com

And another:

Zum Anzeigen anmelden oder registrieren

Sieh dir auf Facebook Beiträge, Fotos und vieles mehr an.

www.facebook.com

 

[chrisp]

Hi Guys .. Testing the German Fb linking issue.

Zum Anzeigen anmelden oder registrieren

Sieh dir auf Facebook Beiträge, Fotos und vieles mehr an.

www.facebook.com

So this message is saying, "login or register to view" even though I have Facebook open in another tab. I've reset the server time zone settings to be Vancouver PST but it's still translating based on a different time zone. Stay tuned ....

chrisp

 

[chrisp]

Update: I've been in contact with the developers of our forum software and they are working on this. Apparently, the issue is being caused by CloudFlare's proxy server used by our hosting account. Facebook sees this proxy server as being in Germany, thus the translation. I'll update you here when I know more.
chrisp

 

[bigdogg1]

Update: I've been in contact with the developers of our forum software and they are working on this. Apparently, the issue is being caused by CloudFlare's proxy server used by our hosting account. Facebook sees this proxy server as being in Germany, thus the translation. I'll update you here when I know more.
chrisp

So I will hold off on my Master Class German courses for now. Thanks!

 

[chrisp]

Update #2: The forum developers have a bug report in their queue. There's no ETA on when this will be resolved. Bugs are usually resolved in future software releases so we'll just have to live with this for the time being.
chrisp