YouTube was down for thousands of users in US
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.
For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."
YouTube went down on Tuesday night, with more than 300,000 users experiencing technical difficulties, according to DownDetector. Problems for the digital video platform began around 5 p.m. PT, and some users saw services partially restored as early as about 6:00 p.
YouTube users have reported being unable to view comments while using ad-blocking tools, with some claiming it’s even happening to YouTube Premium subscribers.
YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.
In what’s a rare occurrence, it seems the YouTube platform is down this February 17, and it’s affecting both the browser and app versions based on our testing. Players will see issues loading new videos or even the app itself for now, with a ton of reports surfacing now.