YouTube has a massive worldwide outage
By ForGeeks On the evening of October 24, 2024, YouTube users around the world experienced widespread problems with the service. According to multiple reports, the platform began to run slowly, with video quality issues and delays in uploading content. The problems were observed in various countries, including the US, Germany, the UK and India.
According to Downdetector and other sources, the surge of complaints about the service’s slow performance began around 8:30 p.m. worldwide time. Some users complained of video playback problems and low-quality content, indicating serious problems with YouTube’s infrastructure. As a result, many videos failed to load or froze while being processed.
Some users complained of video playback problems and poor content quality, indicating serious infrastructure issues at YouTube.
At the time of publication, YouTube has yet to officially comment on the cause of the outage. Likely causes could range from technical issues to DDoS attacks, but the exact cause of the incident remains unknown.
The exact cause of the incident remains unknown.
In Russia, however, due to YouTube’s slowdown, the problem is not yet noticeable or widespread at all.
So far, the problem is not yet visible or widespread in Russia.
