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Earlier this year Mozilla announced they would investigate YT's algorithm, to find out why it recommends what it does.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/news/86788-mozilla-needs-help-figure-out-youtube-recommendation-algorithms.html

Today YT is down worldwide, prompting speculation as to what is going on behind the scenes.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/11/21561764/youtube-down-outage-loading-videos

This could be a major code overhaul of some kind to further imit visibility of content Google disapproves of. In the meantime, it's a dead site.

Earlier this year Mozilla announced they would investigate YT's algorithm, to find out why it recommends what it does. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/news/86788-mozilla-needs-help-figure-out-youtube-recommendation-algorithms.html Today YT is down worldwide, prompting speculation as to what is going on behind the scenes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/11/21561764/youtube-down-outage-loading-videos This could be a major code overhaul of some kind to further imit visibility of content Google disapproves of. In the meantime, it's a dead site.

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[–] • 5 pts

Must be something really important if they have to take down their entire storage server farms at once to deploy it.

[–] • 3 pts

Maybe they only took down the app servers?

[–] • 4 pts

Whatever they did is probably gonna be used to censor even more.

[–] • 2 pts

It's back up now with no explanation. TeamYouTube twitter just said "thanks for being patient."
Downtime was probably less than 2 hrs.

[–] • 1 pt

But the app should has an offline interface that accesses the same servers.