YouTube service was disrupted in parts of the UK on Friday, according to outage detection site Downdetector.com. The cause of the outage is not yet known, but appears to primarily impact live streaming videos.
"YouTube is experiencing international outages with live streams impacted; incident not related to country-level Internet disruptions or filtering," outage tracker NetBlocks said. Other Google services do not appear to be impacted.
When users try to access YouTube streams, they see black screens with a loading animation and error messages requesting that they "please try again later."
Those who are able to load live streams report that the video is laggy, with chat messages lagging or not appearing at all.
NetBlocks, an internet monitoring company, also confirmed that YouTube is experiencing a global outage that is affecting live streams.
According to NetBlocks, this incident has nothing to do with "country-level internet disruptions or filtering."
It is currently unknown whether this is due to scheduled maintenance, a problem with YouTube's servers, or malicious activity.
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Downdetector monitors outages by aggregating status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.