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Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by axiombuga1 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:54 AM UTC

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 :)

It’s amusing but playing devil’s _ad_vocate: isn’t this just a sign of a really well-engineered e2e system? It certainly tells you where the most bullet-proofing (aka sev follow-ups completed) has occurred.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by Ylpertnodi » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 7:31 AM UTC

wigglefruit wrote: post #59

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.

The 'outage', could have been a 'adblock test successful'.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by em-bee » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:49 AM UTC

alexpadula wrote: post #29

sergiotapia wrote: post #26

Whew, thought they finally axed my beloved Brave browser.

I'm sure we all went through a phase of like "What did they axe?" I thought it was my VPN.

living in a country where internet access to certain sites is either restricted or blocked from the site, you always wonder on any outage, which side caused it this time.

in this case i thought maybe i had a bad IP that youtube didn't like and desperately tried reconnecting my router hoping to get assigned a different IP.

Re: YouTube seems to be down

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Post by Aurornis » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

brewdad wrote: post #51

Aurornis wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The parent commenter isn’t trying to break a habit. They said they enjoy it and choose to do it. I’m asking why they do that despite the extreme negative effects they note.