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Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

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post #20

The title is misleading, Google has not broken anything, Dutch providers have. I hope Google will do nothing, and the providers will be pressured into fixing their shitty hardware.

Can you provide a source? If this is the case that's quite a serious fault, but it seems unlikely that multiple independent providers would simultaneously do this.

Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

#32
post #20

The title is misleading, Google has not broken anything, Dutch providers have. I hope Google will do nothing, and the providers will be pressured into fixing their shitty hardware.

could you explain with more details. I'm curious what is all about.

Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

#34
same here in Germany on windows this morning.. also had to disable QUIC.

Funnily I switched to Microsoft Edge for a short while, but have once again realized why its unusable. After about 1-2 minutes using it, the entire browser became unresponsive for about 60 seconds. Afterwards I couldnt press sign-in on YouTube because an invisible IFrame from the OneNote Web Clipper Extension was overlaying it. Nobody seems to be testing those either :)

Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

#35

same here in Germany on windows this morning.. also had to disable QUIC. Funnily I switched to Microsoft Edge for a short while, but have once again realized why its unusable. After about 1-2 minutes using it, the entire browser became unresponsive for about 60 seconds. Afterwards I couldnt press sign-in on YouTube because an invisible IFrame from the OneNote Web Clipper Extension was overlaying it. Nobody seems to b…

Well, yeah. It's Windows 10, you're beta testing it for them.

Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

#36
I'm going to hijack this thread to describe something weird that's happened to me yesterday w/ Google: just connected on my usual BT (UK) wifi, and when I opened google.com, Safari complained about an invalid SSL certificate: it was self-signed, with expiration in 2111. After a dozen refreshes, everything started to work, with the correct certificate.

Anybody seen anything like that? Is it possible that a corrupted packet could appear as a self-signed certificate? Did some MITM screw up?

Re: Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

#39
post #20

The title is misleading, Google has not broken anything, Dutch providers have. I hope Google will do nothing, and the providers will be pressured into fixing their shitty hardware.

I work a Belgian hosting provider, directly uplinked to our datacenter via Cogent/TINET. The same happened here.

There's no hardware cause, it appears to be a minor chrome update combined with a QUIC server-side update (unconfirmed) that caused issues. As soon as Chrome auto-updates to the next minor release, things appear better (but not fully fixed).

It's entirely in the browser Google server-side, ISPs have nothing to do with this.

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