Posted on 06/12/2025 3:02:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
An apparent internet service outage has disrupted operations on countless major websites including Google, Spotify, and Amazon Web Services.
Around midday Thursday, outage monitoring service DownDetector.com reported widespread service disruptions across commonly used platforms like SnapChat and YouTube, with many social media users reporting difficulty accessing several sites.
Some notable web services experiencing disruptions include: Spotify, Discord, Google and related services like Google Maps, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, SnapChat, YouTube, OpenAI, CharacterAI, FuboTV, Etsy, Vimeo, UPS, Shopify, Microsoft Azure, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Gemini, DoorDash, Calendly, Paramount+, IKEA, Twitch andMicrosoft 365.
A full list of shuttered services can be found on DownDetector.com.
Cloudflare, an IT service management company that provides hosting services, initially announced on its website Thursday afternoon that a “number of services” were suffering “intermittent failures.”
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Nintendo online is down too, I know cause my nephew wanted to go online to play mario kart and cant
Maybe this is going to go much further on Saturday, and this is just a test run? Or maybe the Iranians or Chinese or testing, because of possibly imminent hostilities in Iran?
One of these days we are going to wake up and nothing will work. It will be chaos on a level we have not seen yet.
Hmm, Iran, China, or Russia, doing a little testing of their cyberwarfare?
No Doordash? People will starve!
Trump is so cruel!
FR remains up. Yay!
My AI went down last hour of the day. I felt so alone.
I had a little trouble with FR earlier today.
The FreeRepublic server is rock-solid!
I never thought of it in light of Saturday, but what a way to disrupt government and LE communications.
However, it would disrupt them, too.
Bank runs in 4.3.2.1...
Stupid and irresponsible comment.
Perhaps.
I agree. The withdrawal will be ugly.
Oops! Sorry bout that! My bad! I went into settings and cleared the entire history of views and searches! I guess I didn’t think it through!
Yep....nothing like old school but I don’t think our server has rainbow stickers. :)
Is there any indication of when spankme.com will be up again?
Asking for a friend.
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