YouTube Is Down (downdetector.com)

what ever will i do /s

the upside this is a great opportunity to do an early bed time

I’m able to reach videos via my history but not getting anything on the front page.

Now I have nothing

I'm currently sitting next to my son who is watching a Mark Rober video on youtube.

But yeah, neither the web site or the app are loading anything right now. But I guess a stream in progress in unaffected.

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Well that’s one way to go to bed on time :)

I’ve been forcibly signed out from my Google account across all devices I think this may be their auth that went down.

I'm already, seriously, looking forward to the post-mortem. It kind of sucks when things break, but it is also really interesting to hear the gritty details. Hopefully they don't disappoint? Odds that is AI related?

The home feed of the website doesn't seem to be working for me, but individual channel pages are working, and videos are loading.

Directly navigating to a channel works fine.

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Videos are streaming but the quality seems to be low; on a few videos I checked, format 136 which is supposed to be 1080p is currently actually only 360p. Possibly a bandwidth problem.

Man... updated mozilla,toyed with my ad blocker, now updating the os. Never crossed my mind this was a 'them' problem.

I’m sure Claude will have it up and running in just a few minutes. No big deal.

FCC is really trying hard to stop that Talarico video.

You can search and watch videos directly with no issue, but main feed and suggestions on the side of videos are not appearing.

Really goes to show how much I depend on the algorithmic recommendations, I have no idea what to watch having to search manually. Usually my feed always has something that piques my interest.

edit: back up

Interesting outage, I can play videos added to my playlists, but homepage is empty.

Interesting. I wonder what LeetCode hard they'll use to investigate and fix this issue.

Watch this be a bug added by some AI agent.

I think it is an authorization issue? Thought it might be on my end... glad to have found this.

What happens if downdetector goes down? Who watches the watcher?

I mistakenly thought that YouTube hit a compatibility problem with my Firefox browser. The only breakage I could see was that the right sidebar of related/recommended videos disappeared. But I was watching several videos consecutively just fine. (I obtained video links from recent bookmarks, plus manually queued URLs of next videos to watch.)

The fattest of Tuesdays.