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Customer confidence. Same as how everyone reports they have 99.99% uptime.
Then their status page is not unlike like target reporting in the USSR: completely fictional.
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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I, and probably many others here are like a status page for friends and family too... I had my wife thinking that the internet was broken, and tried tethering to phone and things and still didn't work, then showed me and I saw the status code errors and was like "it's actually parts of Google that are down". I love (and am deeply scared by) the dependence of Google and the confusion of it with the entire internet.
It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290 >I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now. Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Looking at the other comments, it seems highly likely zanzibar[1] is down. Their auth service. [1] PDF: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190.pdf
So no, not zanzibar
1. Phone Gmail won't load. 2. Turn off wifi and use cell network. Still won't load. 3. Check hacker news.