Worldwide Service Disruption Occurs
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A black screen appearing due to a playback error on YouTube. Yonhap News,
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, “On the morning of the 16th, an unknown error occurred at YouTube and YouTube Music, operated by Google, causing inconvenience for users. It is reported that the services are currently being restored sequentially.”,
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, Google Korea stated that “around 8 a.m. (Korean time), some users experienced issues with YouTube and YouTube Music not functioning properly.” They added, “We will inform you as soon as the issue is resolved” and apologized for the inconvenience. Due to this error, users experienced symptoms such as video loading interruptions, playback history not updating, and connection errors on the mobile app when accessing YouTube.”,
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, “This service disruption appeared to be global, affecting regions such as Europe, Asia, and South America, according to foreign media. Reuters reported that ‘tens of thousands of YouTube users in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and other countries reported outages’ and noted that the cause of the error remains unclear.” According to Downdetector, which tracks online service disruptions, more than 300,000 outage reports were recorded in the U.S. alone within one hour from 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 15th (8:30 a.m. Korean time on the 16th).”,
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