Can't manage to play any videos on mobile, web nor android TV. I thought it was my VPN at first but no seems legit.

We had some trouble casting YouTube to the TV just now. I checked downdetector on a hunch and yup.

Now I have to hang out with my children :-(

As of 19:50 EST the issue is still apparent from what I can tell.

Site is accessible but videos won't play (NYC)

Not sure if it's related, but looks like the controls are now transparent overlays?

Edit: videos a bit slow to load, but now working again as of 8:02pm EST

oh, and I wondered if they pushed a massive update to the player breaking NewPipe, they just broke everything, nice

I guess I might actually go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight then...

In New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/youtube-outage-hits-us...

Youtube Music doesn't auto-play the next track in a radio. On the web, some videos display an error on load, but become viewable once refreshed.

It now loads, but errors everywhere

Doom-scrolling through shorts, about half of them display an error. So the playout end must be partly down.

I was getting the lowest res in auto mode on mobile this afternoon (~10 hrs ago), had to manually select higher res. Maybe something was brewing.

Love it when the ads load but the video you wanted to watch won't load.

Same for me. Videos don’t load, errors out

In other news, global productivity measures have mysteriously increased significantly in the last 25 minutes.

Whew, thought they finally axed my beloved Brave browser.

Ads seem to be still working. If you have the patience to reload non working videos. So there’s that.

No Vodafone two days ago and now no YouTube. I am amazed at these system wide outages.

I thought YouTube cached all the recommendations fairly locally with a box at the Telco. Clearly this is not the case if it is down for everyone, everywhere.

i got my food and everything man

It's up in Japan

man i got my food ready and everything how am i supposed to eat now

Living in South korea, youtube is down here too. Sad that I have to touch grass instead of doomscrolling in my comfy bed.

Thankfully there is still tumblr

Seems fine here - uk

Also wow I had forgotten how obnoxious yt is on a phone. Usually on an adblocked pc

Are there other Google services down, or just YouTube?

Up again.

Fixed? Mine was broken half an hour ago (USA/CO), but now bideos that didn't work are playing.

Every time YouTube has problems, I'm like "why YouTube doesn't try hard to work properly on my Firefox with uBlock origin, sponsorblock, and dozen of conflicted plugins? Are they stupid?"

Seems to be working for me in Canada as of 20:21 EST on web and mobile, I can go through multiple and videos are loading well. It seems for the the partial outage lasted about 1 hour. I confirmed with other family households and their YouTube is working again as well.

Do the paid subscribers get compensated for the loss of service?

I'm guessing they don't.

Yet another reminder to download your favorite videos before YouTube goes down again or they get deleted or privated, or whatever.

That explains the playback errors I started getting around an hour ago. Wasn't sure what was going on, but I didn't think it was a wider outage since I did after a couple of minutes manage to get it to playback a video I wanted to watch.

These problems likely stem from Google's latest attempt to nuke NewPipe, PipePipe et al.

Just had a message from PipePipe. Quote:

"Announcement

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YouTube has just rolled out an update that effectively blocks our current implementation for video stream extraction. This affects both anonymous and authenticated (login based) fetching. We are actively working on a solution. Thank you for your patience!"