YouTube BROKE but the ads kept working...
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YouTube experienced a global outage where the homepage went blank, apps showed error screens, and services like YouTube Music, TV, Kids, and Shorts all failed simultaneously, generating 1.6 million reports on Downdetector. The root cause wasn't server failure or a hack — it was a bug in YouTube's recommendation algorithm, which drives 70% of all content watched on the platform. Without it, YouTube couldn't surface any content. Notably, ads continued to function throughout the outage.
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