YouTube Experiences Widespread Outage Affecting Recommendations System
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Summary
YouTube experienced a widespread outage affecting its main platform, YouTube TV, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids, with issues primarily related to the recommendations system preventing videos from appearing on various surfaces. Google confirmed the issue was partially fixed with the homepage becoming accessible again, but a full fix for recommendation problems was still pending.
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· 3 pulledIf you're trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you're not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.
Google says that this issue is partially fixed, with the homepage once again accessible, but a 'full fix' is yet to come for issues affecting recommendations.
An issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids).
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