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YouTube was down — here's what happened

A 502 error took YouTube down in several countries

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YouTube went through an outage affecting millions of users across the globe. With over 12,000 outage reports on Down Detector at its peak, users are sharing the 502 page error they are all seeing.

A 502 bug is typical when there's a problem with the servers, and users reported the US, Spain, Japan and more were affected. Other countries like the UK were unaffected and the app was all fine too. This impacted the website specifically.

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That's a big spike

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We're currently at 12,934 user outage reports at the time of writing. According to our StatusGator and user reports, this seems to be an outage impacting the website — the mobile app seems to be OK.

What users are seeing

This is what a lot of the users in the U.S. are seeing when trying to enter YouTube or YouTube TV — a 502 server error. "Please try again in 30 seconds," the error message reads.

A potential fix?

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A small but important turn in the tide of outage reports. This may be a blip!

Was this a broader Google thing?

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There's a chance this may be something more on Google's server side of things. There have been outage reports on the big G's side too, but nowhere near the same size as YouTube. So this could be a bit of a red herring — you see them often when it comes to people blaming the servers rather than the service.

Looks like it (might) be over

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Outage reports have just taken a massive dive, and Tom's Guide staff are confirming YouTube loads again in the U.S.

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