These problems likely stem from Google's latest attempt to nuke NewPipe, PipePipe et al.
Just had a message from PipePipe. Quote:
"Announcement
##251016
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!"
cionut 5 hours ago [-]
Ads seem to be still working. If you have the patience to reload non working videos. So there’s that.
mrtksn 5 hours ago [-]
So in the stats it will look like a case where the revenues remained steady but the bandwidth costs went down. Great success :)
itopaloglu83 4 hours ago [-]
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 4 hours ago [-]
You should probably just switch to using Firefox on Android or Orion on iOS and just use ublock origin
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Probably programmed in to be like that.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
Love it when the ads load but the video you wanted to watch won't load.
sunrunner 5 hours ago [-]
I love it when the ads don't load therefore blocking the video completely instead of going past them.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
That's a good one :') ha, they got those ads to serve but not the desired content
SllX 4 hours ago [-]
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 4 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
I guess I might actually go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight then...
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
I thought I could crack a book or write something but It's rather entertaining watching all the peoples reactions.
mythrwy 5 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
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 4 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
It's almost like breaking bad habits is hard.
benjaminclauss 5 hours ago [-]
really soul crushing to realize YouTube needs to go down to see how I default to opening it
arprocter 5 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
My videos are playing like slideshows.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Some are reporting homepage partially loading as well.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
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 4 hours ago [-]
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 5 hours ago [-]
Doom-scrolling through shorts, about half of them display an error. So the playout end must be partly down.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Oh yeah partially for sure, Google has such a strong and large network, a full outage is doubtful, partial is more realistic for sure.
As of 19:50 EST the issue is still apparent from what I can tell.
jjpones 5 hours ago [-]
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.
phatfish 5 hours ago [-]
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.
linsomniac 5 hours ago [-]
Fixed? Mine was broken half an hour ago (USA/CO), but now bideos that didn't work are playing.
tasoo1118 5 hours ago [-]
Mine works. I guess it's fixed? Maybe at least partially or locally.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Doesnt seem so.
hollow-moe 5 hours ago [-]
oh, and I wondered if they pushed a massive update to the player breaking NewPipe, they just broke everything, nice
Havoc 5 hours ago [-]
Seems fine here - uk
Also wow I had forgotten how obnoxious yt is on a phone. Usually on an adblocked pc
Liquix 5 hours ago [-]
using the g**gle frontend is downright miserable, it seemingly changes every week and ublock filters to remove shorts/recommendations/algoslop break. thank god for invidious and newpipe
torcete 5 hours ago [-]
I'm visiting the UK and it's down in this area.
maccam912 5 hours ago [-]
We had some trouble casting YouTube to the TV just now. I checked downdetector on a hunch and yup.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Can't even remember a YouTube outage (would be tied to Google in some way).
hamasho 5 hours ago [-]
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?"
wigglefruit 4 hours ago [-]
Same I thought it was my adblock and SponsorBlock causing the videos to not load.
frenchie4111 5 hours ago [-]
Are there other Google services down, or just YouTube?
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
Seems to be just YouTube but others would be able to tell us.
5 hours ago [-]
hmcamp 5 hours ago [-]
Same for me. Videos don’t load, errors out
hmcamp 5 hours ago [-]
Thankfully there is still tumblr
senectus1 2 hours ago [-]
yeah my watch later play list keeps stopping and the wife just rang me asking why her youtube music keeps crashing.
lawlessone 4 hours ago [-]
Do the paid subscribers get compensated for the loss of service?
I'm guessing they don't.
cynicalsecurity 5 hours ago [-]
Up again.
marak830 5 hours ago [-]
It's up in Japan
Theodores 5 hours ago [-]
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.
HPsquared 5 hours ago [-]
Both can be true. There are many moving parts on something like YouTube! (Edit: but yeah, I'm not sure if local caching is really feasible for YT with the huge diversity of content on the platform. Maybe "within 500 miles" is as good as one could expect)
spydum 5 hours ago [-]
I've never heard that, I think you may be thinking of Netflix and their edge storage appliances.
sergiotapia 5 hours ago [-]
Whew, thought they finally axed my beloved Brave browser.
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
I'm sure we all went through a phase of like "What did they axe?" I thought it was my VPN.
greenchair 5 hours ago [-]
yes at first I assumed this was part of the tit for tat ublock war
secondcoming 5 hours ago [-]
They seem to have figured out how to disrupt Brave by running a script that eventually hangs the tab
bruhYTDOWN 5 hours ago [-]
man i got my food ready and everything how am i supposed to eat now
bugbuddy 5 hours ago [-]
In other news, global productivity measures have mysteriously increased significantly in the last 25 minutes.
tasoo1118 5 hours ago [-]
Living in South korea, youtube is down here too. Sad that I have to touch grass instead of doomscrolling in my comfy bed.
aa_is_op 5 hours ago [-]
It now loads, but errors everywhere
bruhYTDOWN 5 hours ago [-]
i got my food and everything man
TypicalHog 4 hours ago [-]
Yet another reminder to download your favorite videos before YouTube goes down again or they get deleted or privated, or whatever.
cindyllm 4 hours ago [-]
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monero-xmr 5 hours ago [-]
Now I have to hang out with my children :-(
BryanA 5 hours ago [-]
Now my children have to hang-out with me! :) Oh rats, Minecraft still works...
alexpadula 5 hours ago [-]
:') can be the best time, imagine no power and just candles! Can be worse
Just had a message from PipePipe. Quote:
"Announcement
##251016
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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
Also wow I had forgotten how obnoxious yt is on a phone. Usually on an adblocked pc
I'm guessing they don't.
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.