dec 14, 2020 - YouTube Crashes Global Outrage
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December 2020 services outage
The problem was due to a failure in Google Accounts; services such as YouTube were still accessible with private browsing. Google Workspace Status Dashboard showed all services as operational for approximately 40 minutes before correctly reporting their status as down.
Cloud. The outage only lasted 50 minutes but blocked access to Gmail and YouTube for billions of users worldwide. ... Google says that the outage stemmed from changes it made to the Google User ID Service in October as part of a migration to the new quota system.
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~ 4 years and 6 months ago