YouTube outage affects homepage, app, YouTube TV & more
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YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen.
The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,
More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!
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.
More than 300,000 users experienced issues with YouTube platforms on Tuesday night, according to Downdetector.
The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.
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