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Seems like just the video player is down - homepage loads with thumbnails, and when you click on a video, everything but the video player renders. What I find interesting is that scrolling through a video still displays closed captions and even the thumbnail preview of the timestamp you're hovering over. Curious if anyone know what causes something like this?

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Captions and thumbnails come from a different part of the CDN. Same with Netflix. The videos come from devices dedicated to large files, the captions and thumbnails come from a CDN designed for small files.

How fun - same goes with the previews on hover over timestamps then, I guess?

Most likely. Any small file comes from a different CDN than the video.

Interesting, thank you! :)

thumbnails both static and animated are served from i.ytimg.com/vi/ thumbnail preview is also server from i.ytimg.com/sb/

videos however come from redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback

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