YouTube is currently facing a global outage, with users reporting playback errors on both the website and mobile apps.
When trying to watch videos, users see messages like “Playback error” or “Something went wrong,” while some say the site is slow or not loading at all.
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Source: BleepingComputer
The outage began within the last 30 minutes.
According to DownDetector, YouTube is experiencing issues across the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, Australia, and several other regions.
It is still unclear whether this is due to server problems, maintenance work, or a network-related issue.
This is a developing situation and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Update: After a brief outage, YouTube is now slowly coming back online.
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Comments
NoneRain - 1 day ago
They were applying changes on the platform...
doncoyote - 1 day ago
The battle to display unlimited ads before the video continues.
XSp - 1 day ago
What fresh horrors
tmidgleyjr - 1 day ago
Probably went live with fresh anti-adblock measures that proved way too aggressive and blacked out the last mile everywhere. Hopefully they've learnt that AI picks sides and pursues its end game single-mindedly.
NoneRain - 16 hours ago
what, they were changed the interface bro