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Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by brewdad »

Aurornis wrote: post #49
mythrwy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha yes you and me both. These shorts are horrible. I know everyone hates on them, but they are brain crack for me and I can watch them for hours. I'm pretty sure they devastate your ability to focus though. I really notice it when I've been watching heavily. Something like chronic weed smoking in effect. I never got on tiktok thank goodness. And no I'm I'm not going to pretend I watch a lot of enlightening long for…

Honest question: Why do you keep it on your phone then? If some habit had this bad of an effect on me I’d be going to lengths to cut it out of my life.

It's almost like breaking bad habits is hard.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by Liquix »

Havoc wrote: post #43

Seems fine here - uk Also wow I had forgotten how obnoxious yt is on a phone. Usually on an adblocked pc

using the g**gle frontend is downright miserable, it seemingly changes every week and ublock filters to remove shorts/recommendations/algoslop break. thank god for invidious and newpipe

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Post by hamasho »

Every time YouTube has problems, I'm like "why YouTube doesn't try hard to work properly on my Firefox with uBlock origin, sponsorblock, and dozen of conflicted plugins? Are they stupid?"

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Post by alexpadula »

Seems to be working for me in Canada as of 20:21 EST on web and mobile, I can go through multiple and videos are loading well. It seems for the the partial outage lasted about 1 hour. I confirmed with other family households and their YouTube is working again as well.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by alexpadula »

alexpadula wrote: post #57

Seems to be working for me in Canada as of 20:21 EST on web and mobile, I can go through multiple and videos are loading well. It seems for the the partial outage lasted about 1 hour. I confirmed with other family households and their YouTube is working again as well.

Just a theory: They seem to put in a temporary fix, it seems some videos just skip and don't play like they can't load and then get skipped. Odd, not sure. Will see what others say.

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Post by wigglefruit »

hamasho wrote: post #55

Every time YouTube has problems, I'm like "why YouTube doesn't try hard to work properly on my Firefox with uBlock origin, sponsorblock, and dozen of conflicted plugins? Are they stupid?"

Same I thought it was my adblock and SponsorBlock causing the videos to not load.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

mrtksn wrote: post #30
cionut wrote: post #28

Ads seem to be still working. If you have the patience to reload non working videos. So there’s that.

So in the stats it will look like a case where the revenues remained steady but the bandwidth costs went down. Great success :)

Task failed successfully - YouTube.

Ads also have a tendency to load at higher quality even when there are bandwidth restrictions on cellular networks. We're all being forced to watch 360p videos on our $100/month cellphone plan, but somehow everybody is aligned to give us 4k ads, and waste our battery and bandwidth.

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