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Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark (www.smartcompany.com.au)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess they went a little hard manipulating the algorithm

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or, maybe they're trying to kill adblockers so hard that they killed the whole homepage.

"Well if we can't block the adblockers, we'll just block EVERYBODY! No more Mr Beast for anyone!"

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Ngl, I turned off my adblocker in a private window to see if that may have been the case. It was still fucked.