Maybe unrelated but a large portion of the Google Cloud web Console was down yesterday for hours.
Google photos is absolutely struggling to load my jpegs right now, though I'm not sure how separate that service is from Drive, if at all.
I would bet they're both using the same storage layer (Google Cloud Storage?)
I also have problems with firebase virtual device testing service and google play console api sice yesterday. I keep getting 500 as response, dont know if related though.
Add YouTube to the list.
Youtube was giving me 500s in ways that have never occurred before.
YouTube seems to be in this amazing degraded state for me where videos play just fine, but it isn't showing me ads.
That state is called “using ublock”.
I was in the complete messed up scenario. Youtube loads ads fine, but after playing them, was not able to load the actual content.
Hah I had the opposite. All my ads were playing fine but not the actual videos.