Over 7,000 users report outage
Over 5,000 outage reports have now surfaced across the US and some 1,900 in the UK.
Users reveal temporary fix
Some users found a temporary fix by disabling their ad blockers.
One person wrote: “I have a premium but also use Ad Blocker. Turning Ad Blocker off solved the issue for me,” o
Another user added: “Issue seems to be with premium and AdBlock combined.
“Turning off my ad blocker while logged in with premium works.
“Logging into a different account with AdBlock still on works as well. Doesn’t make full sense since premium doesn’t get ads to begin with.”
Another person wrote: “Been subscribed to YT premium for years now, never realised I had adblock turned on yt. Solved the problem by turning it off.”
Cities in US hit by the outage
Another map by Downdetector shows areas affected by the YouTube outage in the US.
