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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by Austin_Conlon »

mr_toad wrote: post #32
augusto-moura wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

Vimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.

It's niche but I like that a lot of filmmakers seem to be on there. Often I can find the individual people behind well-produced Apple ads for example.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by birdyrooster »

girst wrote: post #62

doing a `curl -v https://redirector.googlevideo.com ` (the host you'll connect to before getting redirected to the actual mp4/m4a streams) opens a tls connection (and gives a cert), but it then hangs for two minutes, before returning a 502. i'd wager some database storing info about the streams crashed :^D (given that it also crashes on /, it's more likely something else)

I remember hearing something like Google Global Cache proxies requests to Google datacenters so that retransmit times, due to last mile issues, are lower since packets do not need to travel all the way to the datacenter. My guess is that they might do HTTP TLS termination there, and when the backend failed to respond in time returned 502.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by TrinaryWorksToo »

augusto-moura wrote: post #21
birdyrooster wrote: post #18

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

LBRY?

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by toast0 »

ATsch wrote: post #68
toast0 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly, but the pages and ads load fine, just the videos are broken, so I'd take your bet (idiomatically; I'm not a betting person).

That makes sense to me, because dynamic pages are not served from a CDN, which do a lot more BGP and routing trickery that could go wrong.

That's fair, but Google's BGP errors tend to be global. To my knowledge they've never killed their CDN and not everything else. (I have no non-public knowledge, I just pay attention).

Will be looking forward to their report.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by wongarsu »

croes wrote: post #52

Too bad, the popup for youtube premium still works.

"Do you want videos to continue playing in the background?" is an even more annoying ad when the video isn't playing at all

Re: YouTube Down

#88

Post by yreg »

Downdetector also shows increased error rates for Search, Play, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, Twitch…

What’s going on?

Re: YouTube Down

#89

Post by vxxzy »

Sorry... I think I broke YouTube when I converted my Google Music account over to YT. Happened at the exact same time! /s (but really at the same time)
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