The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.

In what’s a rare occurrence, it seems the YouTube platform is down this February 17, and it’s affecting both the browser and app versions based on our testing. Players will see issues loading new videos or even the app itself for now, with a ton of reports surfacing now.

Feb 17 (Reuters) - YouTube said on Tuesday it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions.

YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.

YouTube users have reported being unable to view comments while using ad-blocking tools, with some claiming it’s even happening to YouTube Premium subscribers.

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YouTube has quietly imposed new restrictions on ad-blocking users.

YouTube Music is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.

YouTube acknowledged the outage and said the disruption was caused by a problem with its recommendations system, adding that it is working toward a complete fix. In a support update, the platform said,