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Down in New Zealand. Perhaps a failed algorithm update with the intention of breaking youtube-dl?
Videos viewed via website since it went down: 0
Videos downloaded via youtube-dl since it went down: 2
(Granted, there were plenty of retries by youtube-dl.)
Back now in NZ
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So mine both restored working at the same exact second. speedtest and youtube. Just saying...
Oh I’ve had my internet troubles fixed several times by going to that domain. Saw one guy write a script to ping it every 15 minutes. Now to be fair, When in a meeting, I’ve al had to track down the kids and all devises that could possibly access YouTube. After a really bad hour of Zoom; I leaned that you can watch YouTube on the switch. Clever kids. I locked away a 10 year kindle just out of principe for that one.
Look at the charts on downdetector homepage - multiple major sites all got hit by something simultaneously and are all trending back down almost identically.
Recalling mr.Stallman. This is a good reminder about what can happen with all of your online projects/ data/disk storage/letters/photos/notes once it stops working ...I never stored things online.