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YouTube is Down

Posted by msmash on from the outage-reports dept.

YouTube is facing outage worldwide, users and web tracker DownDetector reported Tuesday evening. Users attempting to visit the site have reported seeing a blank website frame instead of the usual homepage. The YouTube app also showed the same problems. In a tweet, YouTube said it was working on resolving the issues on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music.

Update: The issue has been resolved.

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  1. Slashdotted by linuxwrangler · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

    (It is.)

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    1. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And somehow we're still stuck with you.

    2. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's up for me! So if there was an outage it wasn't very long.

    3. Re:Slashdotted by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1

      And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

      (It is.)

      Ah, yes, the good ole slashdotting (look at my slashdot id#, younglings)

    4. Re:Slashdotted by CrAlt · · Score: 2

      Eh? It loads just fine for me, sonny.

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    5. Re:Slashdotted by Excelcia · · Score: 1

      No web site has been "slashdotted" in a very long time. It takes a large user base to accomplish that. Something that Slashdot hasn't boasted for a while now.

      Part of the reason, ironically, is articles like this. This is hardly news worthy. The only reason for it is to go "neener neener", and that's not the kind of thing that attracts new blood.

      Keep it up.

      p.s. Youtube works just fine for me.

    6. Re:Slashdotted by Z00L00K · · Score: 1

      You mean that YouTube in reality now just WAS Slashdotted!

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    7. Re: Slashdotted by alta · · Score: 2

      Awe. Your ID is cute. ;)

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    8. Re:Slashdotted by hwolfe · · Score: 1

      And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

      (It is.)

      Ah, yes, the good ole slashdotting (look at my slashdot id#, younglings)

      Get off my lawn, ya whippersnapper!

    9. Re:Slashdotted by Wolfrider · · Score: 1

      ...your what, now?

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    10. Re:Slashdotted by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      I had watched Youtube, then a TV show, then went to the computer to see this news. Then I immediately went to Youtube and it was up. Not sure why this was a story, unless some Youtube fan was panicking about having to live a short period of time without it.

  2. The most surprising part of all of this by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the most shocking part of this is that we're seeing a Slashdot article about it now instead of two days later.

    I kid, but it's probably because the editors couldn't watch their cat videos and had to do something productive for a change.

    1. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is the first time since 2007 that /. suprised me with pertinent and relevant information. I was attempting to watch an old music video on my phone and assumed youtube was all black for some new type of google ban.

      He homepage works, but no content loads. Im not going to troubleshoot further for them.

      Can't wait to hear the excuse as to why everything is broken.

    2. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a preview of YouTube China.

    3. Re:The most surprising part of all of this by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      typical result when npcs run a website that needs dynamism and intelligence.
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      parent is moderated "funny".
      but this isn't funny, especially for old user, it is sad.

    4. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by WCMI92 · · Score: 2

      NOT funny. But yet, funny.

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    5. Re:The most surprising part of all of this by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      no no, in two days we run the dupe story.

  3. YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P. by ZorinLynx · · Score: 2

    I guess that was a good run.

    I should start my own YouTube. Anybody got a few spare racks in a colo I could borrow? :)

    1. Re:YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P. by ZorinLynx · · Score: 1

      Presumably the hookers have racks, right? :)

  4. Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 4, Funny

    How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

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    1. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by mentil · · Score: 1

      I heard Shodan has links to livestreams of that.

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    2. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by sheramil · · Score: 1

      Imgur.

    3. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

      A cat video quip... How original..

    4. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 1

      Non-youtube source for all your cat video needs: https://vimeo.com/121712712

    5. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 1

      A cat video quip... How original..

      Sarcasm... Equally original.

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    6. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by antdude · · Score: 1

      There are other video sites like Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc. :P

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    7. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

      Spoiled brat. Back in my day we had nothing about ASCII cat animations over 1200 baud modems. Took 2 minutes for a whisker to move.

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    8. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      Correction: "nothing but..."

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    9. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

      Sad attempt at a comeback..... How original.

    10. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      You don't download them and save them on your hard drive??

      Seriously I have a script that backs up every video on my favourites list, because now and then they go private or get removed.

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    11. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Joey+Vegetables · · Score: 1

      Young whippersnapper. In my day we had only IP by Carrier Pigeon (RFC 1149) and we couldn't send cat videos. The cats had an annoying habit of eating the carrier pigeons before they could deliver the video.

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    12. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      You're saying people used to watch real cats for entertainment? Blasphemy!

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    13. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 1

      An even sadder attempt at a comeback..... Epicly original.

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    14. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      Cat and the cucumber? Move on to squirrel videos. Then there's UFO stuff, etc. All kinds of time wasting stuff.

  5. Already playing videos may work by Misagon · · Score: 1

    The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.

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    1. Re:Already playing videos may work by j-beda · · Score: 1

      The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.

      I had been playing a 30 minute video and it finished without interruption before I found that the rest of the world seemed to be without access to Youtube while I was viewing it. I could not start anything further however.

    2. Re:Already playing videos may work by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      Looks like we've found the culprit.

  6. Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by BrendaEM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any site can experience downtime, but when everyone depends on any one system too much, it's bad.

    I do worry as to the cause.

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    1. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 1

      Hooktube is a backup.

    2. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by iggymanz · · Score: 2

      what your favorite bloggers video couldn't be seen? your favorite rock video? old TV show rerun.

      "depend" on youtube? LOLZ

    3. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Lije+Baley · · Score: 1

      I'm still enjoying Bing Video while all you suckers....ack...can't...keep...straight...face...lolololol

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    4. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      Well, they tried to start a Youtube competitor, Bitchute - http://www.bitchute.com/ - but as soon as Google noticed they cut off Bitchute's ability to pay their creators. Let this be a lesson to all those who say "why don't you start your own platform?" The government needs to break up Google. They're too powerful and it's harming our democracy.

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    5. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by reiterate · · Score: 1

      It's for porn, you philistine.

    6. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      There are plenty of ways to pay people that google doesn't have any control of.

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    7. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      These days I watch at least as much YouTube as TV.

      Remember the good old days when TV shows were happy to go into detail or cater to niche interests? When documentaries weren't just Brian Cox starring off into the distance and trying to make everything into a drama? That's what YouTube channels are like.

      The other great thing is that you have a choice of video length. If you want something short you can find it, if you want a longer essay type video it's there. And you can speed videos up too (it fixes the sound so they don't sound like chipmunks).

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    8. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.

    9. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      Yes, but the used Lamborghini dealerships suffer when they can't palm off their too-expensive-to-service hulks on 20 year old YT millionaires.

    10. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by jittles · · Score: 2

      I do worry as to the cause.

      Google Engineer here. Sorry, I tripped over a power cord in my boss's office. I had no idea that he was running the load balancing host off of his desk. It won't happen again, I promise!

    11. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      what your favorite bloggers video couldn't be seen? your favorite rock video? old TV show rerun.

      "depend" on youtube? LOLZ

      A surprising number of companies and organizations do though.

      Training videos, documentation, demos, educational resources, it's all there, from so many sources. Based on your comment, you'd be surprised.

    12. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by petermgreen · · Score: 1

      It would seem more sensible to me to simply not draw the unwanted energy from the panels in the first place.

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    13. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by DaFallus · · Score: 2

      It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.

      And how they always spend the first 3 minutes talking about who they are, and asking you to subscribe to their channel, etc.

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    14. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by eaglesrule · · Score: 1

      Are you implying that Google pressured the "financial partners" that the payment processor Stripe referred to that demanded refusing service to Bitchute? Because it looks as if it could have been Visa/Mastercard themselves.

      Let's just recall that Bitchute offers an alternative to censorship by the ADL and the SPLC.

    15. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      What is a "youtube nagging screen?"

    16. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      most don't

      and now that fringe minority is a bit smarter

  7. Russians by Stealthey · · Score: 1

    I wonder
    https://bgpmon.net/popular-des...

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  8. Youtube outage by LambertH · · Score: 1

    It seemed that Internet Explorer was still functioning for a few minutes after Firefox crapped out.

  9. Single Point of Failure Worldwide by Kunedog · · Score: 1

    What could that have been?

    1. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      The follow up to the Adpocolypse. More powerful political censorship.

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    2. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      DNS

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  10. Embedded videos by Trogre · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough embedded YouTube videos in other webpages show a monkey with a cap and hammer.

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    1. Re:Embedded videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This is racist and YouTube should be ashamed.

  11. Hate it when that happens by boundary · · Score: 2

    Really hoping they're being taught a lesson in censorship by third parties.

  12. It is working fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It works fine using Chrome's Incognito mode, so it looks like their tracking code is what is breaking it.

  13. Makes sense to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They merged Google+ with Youtube. Then they tried to shut down Google+.

    1. Re:Makes sense to me by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      The "poetic justice" angle, I love it!

      But some neckbeards are gonna need a safe space after they were tricked into thinking about Justice.

  14. Duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Only because YouTube is down.

  15. One upload too many by justthinkit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Video 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 did it.

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    1. Re:One upload too many by Talderas · · Score: 4, Informative

      Amusing thought but unlikely. That's equivalent to each human on Earth having posted about 1.5 billion videos to YouTube. If the average age of video poster on Youtube is 27 then that's nearly two videos for every second that person has been alive.

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    2. Re:One upload too many by istartedi · · Score: 1

      Most of those videos are posted by parents in the first year of life. Your numbers actually seem low.

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    3. Re:One upload too many by Talderas · · Score: 1

      It takes 37 years of Earth's current population submitting a video for every second of those 37 years to reach the number in question. My numbers may be an underestimate which is fine since the underestimate is already absurd on its face. Even if they're an overestimate, it's because I missed a few hundred million people here or set an arbitrary age there, and it's still fine and still absurd.

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    4. Re:One upload too many by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      Is that before or after they edit them into different versions, and add effects?

    5. Re:One upload too many by schweini · · Score: 1

      well, no!
      9,223,372,036,854,775,807 shouldn't cause problems (asuming that YouTube starts counting at 0), being 2^631.
      9,223,372,036,854,775,808 on the other hand...

  16. Google+ shutting down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now we know why the fuck you needed a google+ account to comment on a youtube video.

    It was all rube goldberged up together. Shut google+ down, you shut youtube down.

    1. Re:Google+ shutting down by Ocker3 · · Score: 1

      I Dearly hope that this isn't accurate!

  17. Update code failure? by MtViewGuy · · Score: 1

    I saw a comment on Twitter that a code update to YouTube may have caused a massive erasure of videos. YouTube is being taken down possibly voluntarily until they fix that code update and the videos are restored.

    1. Re:Update code failure? by justthinkit · · Score: 1

      Like this one?

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  18. Re:Prepared to be YouTubed by Guillermito · · Score: 1

    Outage Report got YouTubed - It's down right now https://outage.report/youtube

  19. They should not have tried to censor everybody. by anwyn · · Score: 1

    We need to develop an alternative to youtube without the censorship.

    1. Re:They should not have tried to censor everybody. by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      There are tons of video sites. The reason people prefer youtube is that it's popular. Creating the millionth alternative, no matter how technically superior, will not accomplish anything because people want to use the popular platform. Not quite as extreme as the facebook effect (can't create a facebook alternative because nobody's friends are there), but still a very significant hurdle.

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  20. Oddly, by buss_error · · Score: 1

    Youtube Studio seems to be up. Or is it just me?

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    1. Re:Oddly, by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      yup, it's back, not even an hour down but some people were wailing like it was the Apocalypse (glances at silly relatives)

  21. Re:OMG what will we do without ourselves? by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    No 1980's computer games getting played on repaired 1980's computers.
    The missing out on a sail boat getting 30 mins of fiberglass repair work with thanks to the brand who sponsored the show.

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  22. Was it slashdotted??? :) by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1
    Oddly enough, I had started to watch a video about 2 hours before the outage, then I had paused it.

    Then, about 20 minutes after the outage, I try to load the home page, and it would not load. Nor would some videos I had bookmarked.

    Then, I remember the video I was watching; I bring back the window forward, and start playing it again; not only it plays normally, but the buffer-indicator bar keeps loading like if nothing happenned But youtube would not otherwise load.

    This is interesting, it means that the data is not being served by the same servers that do the frontpage and the video presentation pages

  23. Yeah! by WindowsStar · · Score: 1

    I am so tired of the commercials. YouTube was great without the commercials, now it just sucks. I don't watch it anymore especially when they added the commercials every 15 minutes.

    1. Re:Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I am so tired of the commercials. YouTube was great without the commercials, now it just sucks. I don't watch it anymore especially when they added the commercials every 15 minutes.

      Youtube has commercials?!

      Really though this is what ad blockers are for. I personally use ublock origin with a few extra lists enabled. If you don't like that one or can't find it for your browser there are several other good ones that will fix your problem. Seriously I never see commercials on youtube. I don't even see any sort of pause or placeholder where a commercial tried to load. I can watch a video, even one an hour or two long and it plays uninterrupted without issue.

      How can you stand the modern web without a robust ad blocker?? Install one, any good one. If there are no good ones for your browser, switch browsers. Do whatever it takes. The difference is insane. It's fucking night and day. You will not ever go back.

    2. Re: Yeah! by houghi · · Score: 1

      What ads?

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  24. New updates by MrLint · · Score: 1

    I guess the new demonetization installation is having a snag

  25. Slashdot is down by goombah99 · · Score: 1

    I'm going to post a story saying slashdot is down, then everyone on slashdot will go visit slashdot and slashdot will be slashdotted. Then after slashdot gets slashdotted someone will submit a story saying slashdot was slashdotted, and then two days later, when this story is posted it will result in yet another slashdotting of slashdot. And so one every two days until the singularity.

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  26. Quick! by PPH · · Score: 1

    Find a YouTube video on how to repair YouTube.

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  27. It takes the occasional fail. by Mal-2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It takes occasional failure for people to remember that anything can break, because YouTube is exceptionally reliable on the whole. We were starting to forget that this type of failure could even happen.

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    1. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by houghi · · Score: 2

      Perhaps you did. I sure did not. I still understand that email is not instant and can take up to 4 days. When people now do not get an email in 30 seconds, they will call you.

      We see whole countries break. We see things breaking all the time that where there almost forever.

      So not sure why you thought that it could not break.

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    2. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 1

      I think the broader point is that "we" (as a society) are acting less and less like large, catastrophic failures can happen by continuing to push to put more and more eggs into technological baskets. See, for example, self-driving cars, particularly those with any sort of reliance on an always-on data feed or any level of centralized control.

    3. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by squiggleslash · · Score: 1

      It can legitimately take minutes for an email to be sent, but let's face it: we're not using UUCP any more, if it takes days for an email to arrive (hell, if it takes hours) then something is broken.

      The world changes and technologies change, and expectations along with them. It used to take five to ten minutes to load a game from tape on a Commodore 64, does that mean you shouldn't think something's wrong if Firefox isn't showing a window within a minute of starting it?

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  28. Didn't notice... by DogDude · · Score: 1

    I didn't notice. I own my music and video files.

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    1. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership as an option?

    2. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership without violating YouTube TOS as an option?

    3. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      That's true of broadcast and cable TV, not so much of YouTube under some interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

  29. Celebrate the event... by LordHighExecutioner · · Score: 1

    ...by singing this altogether!

  30. You can by Pollux · · Score: 1

    It's called PeerTube.

  31. Daddy Daddy fix this by evanchik · · Score: 1

    its not working

  32. lol by sootman · · Score: 3, Funny

    YouTube goes down, and a few hours later it's reported "US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade". Coincidence?

    See also https://www.theonion.com/48-ho...

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