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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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[–] • 6 pts

Probably updating their new AI based censoring code.

[–] • 2 pts

Oh it's just a glitch that every single channel not promoting msm values doesn't function. We'll look into it later.

Is this gonna be the conservative purge they were gunning for?

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Busy installing new wiretapping tools eh?

[–] • 3 pts

I saw that. I was thinking someone was going to get fired but it probably is a code change.

[–] • 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.

[–] • 1 pt

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

[–] • 1 pt

Last down: 2018-10-18

Back online again.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

A major Google service like YouTube does not go down without a good reason. And that good reason is not "maintenance/updates".

If you've worked in production development environments, you'll know the importance of zero-downtime. A massive tech entity like Google doesn't experience downtime unless they want downtime. Major updates are fully tested and ready-for-deployment before they ever see light of day. And those deployments do not result in downtime of any kind.

Google is doing weird shit. As of a couple weeks ago youtube has been "buggy" and "glitchy". Leaving some videos without audio, or not playable at all. Coincidence that this is happening around the election? I don't think so.