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YouTube Down – Seems Like The Outage Bug Has Hit Today
This morning we reported on the outage at Technorati. Om reports that Yahoo had some issues today as well. Now it appears that YouTube is out of service as well. We saw a few outages with YouTube earlier this year but the site has been rock solid since.
There’s a bunch of chatter about the outage over on Twitter. I understand there are several people visiting local hospitals because they are unable to watch the latest cat videos. People, please remain calm during this unfortunate time.
As always, please report in if YouTube is down for you as well.
Update 10:45PM: YouTube does appear to load now however the site loads without the stylesheet.
Update 10:55PM: As c187 notes in the comments, Google’s server "http://s.ytimg.com" appears to be the issue now – and the reason for the style and look not loading.
Update 6AM: Apparently YouTube was down because they decided to bring out a awesome nasty looking new design update. Mike Arrington notes that they have also added a search bar to the embedded video option. My gut tells me they shrunk the header even further to allow for a larger ad space – but the text in the nav just looks like amateurish. I also noticed earlier this week they began trapping the referral url into the links inside the embedded movies. This will tell YouTube/Google where people are grabbing links from.
Only their i1.ytimg.com service is down for me.
DJ Allen Stern on the roll. That was hilarious.
thanks :) I need to do more of those!
It appears to be down today ( 12/04/08 ) again, at least for me it is. :-(
Waaaait a minute… They’re trapping referral links and passing them via *embedded* videos?
So, not only do they involuntarily bulk up your G profile with the alternative web site you’re on whenever an embedded YouTube video appears, they also add the even more alternative web site which linked you there? Without anybody noticing, except those of us who pay close attention to strings of code?
Where is the respect? No doubt they’ll do the same (if not already) with AdWords and Analytics and Data API and JSAPI embedded code. Direct address logging alone would cover a high % of web sites out there; adding referral logging covers infinitely more.
To illustrate, how many web sites can you View > Source on without seeing a connection to a Google server of some description? Every one of them, CN included, pipe the address you’re on and the address you were on before loading that page. How often do you go to two web sites in a row without any connection to a Google server these days?
That’s how often your private browsing would be kept separate from the browsing history involuntary logged alongside your profile for all eternity. Even if you turn off your right to access your own log via google.com/history. Even if you don’t have a Google Account at all — (non-members need targeted ads, too).
Look at CenterNetworks.com for an example of how bad it has become. Every web site which has referred you here has been added to your Google and Yahoo! profiles, both of which have already been let out of the barn in response to government orders (China for Yahoo!, USA for Google/YouTube).
Here is what to paste into your /etc/hosts (OS/X) or C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file if you would like your browsing before and on CenterNetworks.com to be private:
For privacy from Google on the average CenterNetworks.com comment page, manually add:
127.0.0.1 http://www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 feedproxy.google.com
127.0.0.1 feeds.feedburner.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 partner.googleadservices.com
For privacy from Yahoo! on the average CenterNetworks.com comment page, manually add:
127.0.0.1 f3.yahoofs.com
127.0.0.1 us.i.1.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 geo.yahoo.com
Those cover only the big two offenders with a history of bowing to government to hand over private data. There are many more 3rd party scripts loaded into this very page, but they are less of a thread since they aren’t widespread enough to collect a fairly complete picture of what feeds your mind, and what comes out of it.
NB: I have never before advocated blocking Ad servers (pagead2.googlesyndication.com, partner.googleadservices.com) but there really is no point in trying to keep your browsing private from the rest. Allowing any one of the above to sniff your tracks will have the same result as leaving all unblocked.
Why worry if you have nothing to hide? Because a log of your browsing history will assume that you are an advocate of whatever web site you visit. There is no way for you to know content in advance of it being logged to your profile, and no way to indicate whether your visits are for pleasure, fanaticism, or research for an expose`.
Correction (for lack of edit functionality): Ignore the line 127.0.0.1 us.i.1.yimg.com both for it’s misspelling and for the fact that a link to there is not established on every page load here.
There were some 20 or 15 million people that be infect with NEW virus named Ytimg
The virus ytimg damage amounting in the millions dollars and YouTube lost everyday viewers! The virus ytimg put your IP address on blacklist of YouTube community.
The virus do not put IP address on blacklist but be really shut in “Hosts”by block
127.0.0.1 ytimg.com
The Anonymous is lying, anonymously of course.
ytimg.com is not popularly considered malicious, it’s just owned by the biggest spyware agency in the world: Google
It just went down about 5 minutes ago on my end.
Just was watching a vid, and suddenly it just wouldn’t load.