YouTube Experiences Major Outage Impacting Hundreds of Thousands of US Users
YouTube faced a widespread disruption on February 17, 2026, affecting hundreds of thousands of users primarily in the United States, with peak reports exceeding 300,000 on outage trackers. The issue stemmed from a technical glitch in the platform’s recommendations system, causing blank homepages, failure to load videos across apps and services including YouTube Music, YouTube … Read more