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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

Wow, thanks for the recommendation. Harrowing.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.

It depends how you define "going down." Here's an old screenshot of mine of when Google Search failed spectacularly by marking every single link as malicious and therefore not taking the user to that site when you click the link [1] [2]. Perhaps that might qualify as going down, although clearly it didn't go down at the network level.

It remained broken (in that way) for quite some time (maybe longer than an hour.) But, happening in 2009, I can't accurately recall.

Here is another scenario when Google Search failed to successfully serve my query [3].

And an early time when YouTube went down [4].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png [3] https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png [4] https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or…

AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.

See: How I feel every time someone talks about using some six week old framework to program in some 3 month old extension to some 6 month old language (except, this lingo has been around for decades).

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.

> I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. I'd argue that a youtube outage is worse. If google search is out, you can just use duckduckgo. If you want to watch a video on youtube, you're SOL. This is speaking from experience with blacklisting both google.com and youtube.com in my hosts file. I was doing fine with blacklisting google, but couldn't handle blacklisting youtube. Try it yourself…

Youtube is mostly idle entertainment though so an hour of no youtube is not the end of the world but people rely on search engines to get stuff done.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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post #489

First thing I see on their Twitter page are fake verified Youtube accounts perpetuating some Crypto scam: https://i.imgur.com/PkEbjH5.png

Typical scam. Problem is verified accounts can change names so scammers steal details for random verified accounts and then use them to pretend to be high profile accounts.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually thought it was a bit jarring. Mostly because I don't know what personal information it might be collecting and having me send them.

Well, it's information collected at the server side. So if they really wanted they could just store the data and give you a code, but that would require more storage on their end.

(sorry for the sarcasm but...)

Oh no! YouTube needs to store a few kb of text! How will they have enough space?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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post #426

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's information collected at the server side. So if they really wanted they could just store the data and give you a code, but that would require more storage on their end.

(sorry for the sarcasm but...) Oh no! YouTube needs to store a few kb of text! How will they have enough space?

Well, it obviously only happens when something goes wrong. Seems valuable to keep the complexity and external dependencies of your error handing to a minimum.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..

Long shot here, do you have any videos from The Portland Art Museum channel? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXneDVRq1lLde3oREF_cFyA # they deleted (or made private) one of the talks by Richard Mosse and i'd like to see it again as it was a great talk IIRC.

On topic - I've also made a habit of downloading any videos/channels that are super interesting but I feel may also be ephemeral. Some of that ephemerality is often due to copyright claims, performances of classical music by amateurs and such.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or…

AS? IX? Not everyone knows your insider lingo.

This is hacker news, I think someone can be forgiven for using hacker lingo.
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