It’s not just you: YouTube is down in widespread outage

https://9to5google.com/2025/10/15/youtube-down-outage-october-2025/

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KaRunChiy@fedia.io · 77 pts · 313d (4 replies)

they updated the fucking UI and broke some shit probably

ExplosiveLynx@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 313d (3 replies)

And in typical fashion, the UI update is fucking awful

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 37 pts · 313d (1 reply)

This whole new version of material is god awful. Makes all my apps look like they're for preschoolers. Marketing and design had to justify themselves again

capuccino@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d

It does look like a giant tablet, like "kids will use this anyways"

KaRunChiy@fedia.io · 14 pts · 313d

The transport controls are gigantic now, take up a good chunk of screen real estate whenever u wanna just skim

dumbass@aussie.zone · 59 pts · 313d (5 replies)

I thought they finally broke my modded YouTube app.

Waffle@infosec.pub · 23 pts · 313d

I thought my IP had been blocked for using Freetube.

db2@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 313d (1 reply)

I had to turn off spoof video streams in miscellaneous, worked right away after that. 20.14.43

dumbass@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 313d

Cheers that worked.

lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 313d

Same here. One of my favorite car content creators started a livestream pretty much right when the outage started. Lots of people in live chat were having issues and couldn't see anything. The UI kept erroring out saying "player outdated".

Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 313d

Birds of a feather....

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 58 pts · 313d (2 replies)

But the ads were working.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 37 pts · 313d

I bet the outage was some new antiadblock nefariousness they're trying to implement.

Waffle@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 313d

Yeah I think that was the most frustrating part of it being down. The false promise of an ad...

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 312d (3 replies)

Reading the comments here, they Uno Reversed themselves, blocking official frontend users (official yt app, website, etc.) and allowing unofficial ones (Pipepipe, NewPipe, and some others). Lol. Nice job, guys.

Psythik@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d

LOL no wonder why I haven't been having any issues.

beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d (1 reply)

These are the guys in charge. Pennywise pound foolish.

thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 312d

Pennywise, you say?

OhmsLawn@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 313d (7 replies)

It's been acting up a lot over the last day or so. I thought it was my ad block or something.

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 8 pts · 313d (5 replies)

Same, but I tried turning it off to test and there was no change.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 313d (2 replies)

did you risk watching an ad? brave

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 312d

I did it for all of us.

TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 312d

is the brave adblocker that good tho?

Waffle@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 313d (1 reply)

Wasn't sure if it was my pihole jacking something up

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 312d

ublock origin here, turns out it was an outage.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 313d

i saw a post on reddit too, they were reporting its youtubes side. maybe YT is trying something to mess with the ads again, or against adblocker.

1984@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 312d

Oh shit, what about the advertisers and the influencers, will they be ok? /s

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 313d (3 replies)

YouTube has been absolute dogshit on my Apple TV box, which ironically is the only place I’m not blocking ads. So ads aside I should be getting the best experience… but no. So most of the time I AirPlay my MacBook to my TV and just use Firefox. I mean outside the outage.

rowdy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 313d (1 reply)

You may be interested in https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

It doesn’t outright block ads but it shuts ‘em up and skips ASAP.

Kroko@feddit.online · 1 pts · 312d
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fascicle@leminal.space · 2 pts · 313d

Just sideload smart tube

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 8 pts · 313d (2 replies)

I tough it was me

wagesj45@fedia.io · 9 pts · 313d

Good news, it isn't just you.

deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 310d

Damn you are indeed tough if you managed to break youtube

zecg@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 313d

Pipepipe users did not even notice

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 312d

NewPipe. No issues at all.

Edit: autocorrect

Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 312d

Good.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 312d

I didn't notice. YouTube hasn't worked for like a year.

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 313d

I watched the yify rip of boondock saints directors cut. it's back.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 312d

I gotta tell you I've got music streaming like 14 hours a day and I didn't notice an outage while using Waterfox and uBlock Origin.