YouTube outage affects homepage, app, YouTube TV & more
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
Feb 17 (Reuters) - YouTube said on Tuesday it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions.
In what’s a rare occurrence, it seems the YouTube platform is down this February 17, and it’s affecting both the browser and app versions based on our testing. Players will see issues loading new videos or even the app itself for now, with a ton of reports surfacing now.
For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."
YouTube users have reported being unable to view comments while using ad-blocking tools, with some claiming it’s even happening to YouTube Premium subscribers.
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Why was YouTube down? Streaming giant issues update on what caused the global outage
An issue with the recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across the platform, according to YouTube.