Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

1 points by kradeelav 6d ago ↗ HN

There have been previous outages that last 1-2 days, but I haven't been able to get RSS feeds for the last 4 days now.

This goes for new channels and previous channels in a feed reader; Google displays a 404 page no matter what.

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Shadowed_ 6d ago ↗

Similar problem. I have one feed updated about an hour ago but now they are all status 404.

itsrakesh 5d ago ↗

I'm creating a yt feed reader. Thought I was doing something wrong!

kevincox 4d ago ↗

Something is definitely going wrong. I have seen more and longer stretches of 404s than usual. However I would attribute it more to incompetence than malice. The majority of feeds are still working, I'm still getting updates and feeds that were 404ing even for about a day are coming back online.

It is a bit different then the classic issues, but I think it is substantially the same just slightly more dramatic. I don't see any evidence of removal, protection or blocking.