YouTube seems to be down
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·October 15, 2025cionut
Ads seem to be still working. If you have the patience to reload non working videos. So there’s that.
mrtksn
So in the stats it will look like a case where the revenues remained steady but the bandwidth costs went down. Great success :)
itopaloglu83
Task failed successfully - YouTube.
Ads also have a tendency to load at higher quality even when there are bandwidth restrictions on cellular networks. We're all being forced to watch 360p videos on our $100/month cellphone plan, but somehow everybody is aligned to give us 4k ads, and waste our battery and bandwidth.
ffsm8
You should probably just switch to using Firefox on Android or Orion on iOS and just use ublock origin
alexpadula
Probably programmed in to be like that.
alexpadula
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.
larkinrichards
Love it when the ads load but the video you wanted to watch won't load.
sunrunner
I love it when the ads don't load therefore blocking the video completely instead of going past them.
alexpadula
That's a good one :') ha, they got those ads to serve but not the desired content
SllX
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.
alexpadula
Yeah it's working for some and not working for others as the network is split across many regions I'm guessing. Was down for an hour for me as well.
bronco21016
I guess I might actually go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight then...
alexpadula
I thought I could crack a book or write something but It's rather entertaining watching all the peoples reactions.
mythrwy
Haha yes you and me both. These shorts are horrible. I know everyone hates on them, but they are brain crack for me and I can watch them for hours.
I'm pretty sure they devastate your ability to focus though. I really notice it when I've been watching heavily. Something like chronic weed smoking in effect.
I never got on tiktok thank goodness.
And no I'm I'm not going to pretend I watch a lot of enlightening long form documentaries. It's all a guy in Pakistan making gears followed by a dog falling off a boat followed by a short clip from a movie and I don't recall any of it 30 seconds later. Pure brain eating dopamine.
Aurornis
Honest question: Why do you keep it on your phone then? If some habit had this bad of an effect on me I’d be going to lengths to cut it out of my life.
mythrwy
Because I enjoy it! Maybe I should have made that point stronger in my original post.
It's way better than watching silly movies or playing video games (which I never got into for some reason).
But it does require heavy moderation. Under half an hour in the evening only seems to be fine.
brewdad
It's almost like breaking bad habits is hard.
benjaminclauss
really soul crushing to realize YouTube needs to go down to see how I default to opening it
arprocter
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
hshdhdhj4444
My videos are playing like slideshows.
alexpadula
Some are reporting homepage partially loading as well.
alexpadula
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.
alexpadula
Just a theory: They seem to put in a temporary fix, it seems some videos just skip and don't play like they can't load and then get skipped. Odd, not sure. Will see what others say.
Animats
Doom-scrolling through shorts, about half of them display an error. So the playout end must be partly down.
alexpadula
Oh yeah partially for sure, Google has such a strong and large network, a full outage is doubtful, partial is more realistic for sure.
PaulHoule
In New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/youtube-outage-hits-us...
TacticalCoder
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alexpadula
As of 19:50 EST the issue is still apparent from what I can tell.
jjpones
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.
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!"