The End of the World is Nigh!! Global Youtube Outage!!

Calibos · 17-10-2018 2:10am #1

Bound to be newsworthy I imagine.

PapaOscar · 17-10-2018 2:14am

Conspiracy nuts assemble!

benjamin d · 17-10-2018 2:16am

There was a time when a huge chunk of my online entertainment came from YouTube.... music, tv, random shíte... but now it's extremely rare I go near it. HUGE banner ads on videos, constant and unbearable annotations all over the screen, ceaseless ads before every video, vast tranches of blocked content and rights claims... Google really did a number on YouTube, what a shîtshow it's become.

PapaOscar · 17-10-2018 2:21am

benjamin d wrote: »

There was a time when a huge chunk of my online entertainment came from YouTube.... music, tv, random shíte... but now it's extremely rare I go near it. HUGE banner ads on videos, constant and unbearable annotations all over the screen, ceaseless ads before every video, vast tranches of blocked content and rights claims... Google really did a number on YouTube, what a shîtshow it's become.

The paid version is grand imo, better than spotify.

Calibos · 17-10-2018 2:22am

benjamin d wrote: »

There was a time when a huge chunk of my online entertainment came from YouTube.... music, tv, random shíte... but now it's extremely rare I go near it. HUGE banner ads on videos, constant and unbearable annotations all over the screen, ceaseless ads before every video, vast tranches of blocked content and rights claims... Google really did a number on YouTube, what a shîtshow it's become.

Dude, I haven't seen an ad or banner ads or annotations on youtube in donkeys years! LOL.

'Adblock' and 'Magic Actions for Youtube' for Chrome will sort you out.

benjamin d · 17-10-2018 2:25am

Calibos wrote: »

Dude, I haven't seen an ad or banner ads or annotations on youtube in donkeys years! LOL.

'Adblock' and 'Magic Actions for Youtube' for Chrome will sort you out.

Mainly on a work computer so no admin rights. It also means I have to use IE as YouTube is blocked on Chrome (which according to the work rules I shouldn't have). A balls all round.

Stacksofwacks · 17-10-2018 2:31am

Its been 2 hours already, Ive had to make do with reading vomit on AH, my hands are starting to shake!

pleas advice · 17-10-2018 2:34am

Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

is that what that's about? I was browsing the tunes thread here only two minutes ago and all was fine

kneemos · 17-10-2018 2:36am

The little four second ads don't bother me much, popping up in the middle of a video though is taking the piss.
The skip function doesn't work on adblock,so that's a no.

Stacksofwacks · 17-10-2018 2:47am

back now, just to celebrate..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-XmFjk4vM&start_radio=1&list=RD9w-XmFjk4vM

Stacksofwacks · 17-10-2018 2:49am

oh whatever

Stacksofwacks · 17-10-2018 2:51am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rybr5TkV7Ic

Hector Savage · 17-10-2018 7:47am

I'd imagine people will get fired just cos millions of people couldn't watch cats falling over ...

OldGoat · 17-10-2018 7:55am

Hector Savage wrote: »

I'd imagine people will get fired just cos millions of people couldn't watch cats falling over ...

You haz catz? Linky plz.

Graces7 · 17-10-2018 7:59am

What are you on about? youtube is fine... phew! My lifeline at times it is.

anyways booked the ferry so am away today...

AllForIt · 17-10-2018 8:04am

I think it should be turned off every night so I can get some sleep.

Ficheall · 17-10-2018 8:14am

benjamin d wrote: »

Mainly on a work computer so no admin rights. It also means I have to use IE as YouTube is blocked on Chrome (which according to the work rules I shouldn't have).

Hang on... What? :eek:

benjamin d · 17-10-2018 12:24pm

Ficheall wrote: »

Hang on... What? :eek:

That I have to use IE? It's barbaric.

I get away with most day to day browsing on Chrome but for many things I'm forced to use IE, the intranet and YouTube and most social media and a few other common websites.