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YouTube down in USA: Tens of thousands of users face problems amid outage; ‘something went wrong’
Hindustan Times ^
| February 18, 2026
| Shuvrajit Das Biswas
Posted on 02/17/2026 5:40:59 PM PST by PJ-Comix
YouTube was reportedly down in the USA on Tuesday. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 2,80,000 people facing outage issues with YouTube.
Most of the issues appeared to be with the app, but some complained of troubles with the website as well. Users reported issues with YouTube TV too, with Downdetector logging over 7000 complaints at the time of writing.
YouTube is yet to address the outage and no cause for the ree video sharing site to go down is known yet.
Several people took to social media and the Downdetector comments section to express the problems they were facing.
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KEYWORDS: downdetector; internet; login; youtube
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Yeah, it's not just you. Seems to be very widespread. 10s of thousands of users? Try MILLIONS.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:40:59 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Works for me. I just don’t have the recommendations on the side.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:42:27 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition.)
To: PJ-Comix
The homepage is screwed but I can access all my saved stuff
🤔
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:43:12 PM PST
by
Salamander
( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
To: PJ-Comix
How much you want to bet AI code is somehow responsible?
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:44:26 PM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Political insight on loan from Rush Limbaugh)
To: PJ-Comix
Mine works on my computer but my Roku tv refuses to connect to my account
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:45:12 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
To: PJ-Comix
It partly works. You can click on people you follow and watch their videos. But trying to have youtube give you new videos (via webbrowser) well it isn’t working for me.
To: PJ-Comix
You will own nothing and be miserable.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:46:08 PM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(Political insight on loan from Rush Limbaugh)
To: PJ-Comix
Seems to be serving lots of ads line normal, at least for me.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:46:20 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: EvilCapitalist
I a get to anything I’m subscribed to or have saved and hop around fine but the start page is out.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:46:37 PM PST
by
Salamander
( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
To: for-q-clinton
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:46:59 PM PST
by
Salamander
( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
To: PJ-Comix
This really isn’t a bad thing. Remember the 80s.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:47:16 PM PST
by
JZelle
To: Salamander
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:48:45 PM PST
by
anton
To: PJ-Comix
Youtube is down!
Oh, Lordy what shall we do???
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:51:33 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
To: anton
I just tried to get Youtube after reading this. It does not show the videos, only the side stuff.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:51:37 PM PST
by
EinNYC
To: PJ-Comix
Working fine for me in central NY State.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:53:11 PM PST
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: PJ-Comix
If they only offshored more IT work, it would work better.
To: PJ-Comix
I can get to all my saved stuff.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:54:37 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
To: PJ-Comix
Just went down for me. I couldn’t figure out what went wrong, so I came here. Thanks for posting this.
To: Whatever Works
my Utube is down too, West coast portland area.
To: PJ-Comix
I wondered what happened. The main page won’t display at all, sometimes the subscriptions will work, but on the whole it’s bad.
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posted on
02/17/2026 5:57:23 PM PST
by
ducttape45
(Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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