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Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by rhysd » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

Seems that Google has no budget to pay their GCP instances

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by easytiger » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

dreamer7 wrote: post #216

Mistri wrote: post #182

It's super interesting that all Google services that I've tried are down _except_ for Google Search. What would isolate Search from the rest of Google's products such that it wouldn't be affected by a mass outage like this?

It is something related to authentication. Even YouTube works without being logged in

When logging into any of my gmail personal/free and corporate paid for accounts i get "Couldn't find your google account" in red writing

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Post by akmittal » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

tosh wrote: post #24

Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

It started showing red now

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by GoogleUser123 » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

Cool way to end 2020.... Pandemic and now no more Google. Thank you God :)

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Post by marcbarbosa » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

polote wrote: post #188

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

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Post by gfitz » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:20 PM UTC

h43k3r wrote: post #240

Everything is affected. Its Gaia(Google Auth) outage, most probably. Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.

The nature of this downtime is quite severe. How are Googlers resolving this if their internal communications are down?

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Post by rafaelflores » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

nevi-me wrote: post #231

YouTube Music failed in an interesting way. My music has been playing, but I started hearing ads (I'm on Premium), which prompted me to check what was going on.

I am still listening to youtube bot on discord... Maybe it will crash soon.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by itoocode » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

Looks like the authentication services are having problem. I have account not found error.

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Post by Raphty » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

YouTube work for me in Firefox just fine.

But I have it configured with some of the recommendations from Privacytools.io

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Post by lioeters » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

tux3 wrote: post #183

have_faith wrote: post #56

Gmail said my account was "temporarily" unavailable... had a moment considering if it wasn't temporary. Good reminder to remove my reliance on gmail especially.

Thunderbird prompting me to login, and getting "Google does not recognize this email address" as a reply was a nice adrenaline spike, until I checked the status on HN!

This happened to me with a work email. For a moment I thought, "Well, I had a good run at this company.." My next thought was, "Ha, Google must be down - better check HackerNews."