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Comment by kidfiji | Hacker News Reader

Ah, so that’s probably why YouTube is also down (at the time of this comment)

I am playing a YouTube video (since the time of this comment) and it has not been interrupted.

I am too. But I just loaded up a new youtube page and it's completely white except for a few menu buttons.

It seems to be back, now.

You can still see your subscription videos, just not the homepage.

Searching also works. Actually it seems only the recommendation system is down, which I'd say isn't completely a bad thing.

It is pretty annoying for those of us for whom the recommendation system actually works well.

What do you recommend?

(i'm that old)

My subscriptions page just shows an error. And the app version won't load at all.

I'm able to play videos that are bookmarked in my browser, but the YouTube home page errors out.

> I am playing a YouTube video (since the time of this comment) and it has not been interrupted.

So you're using snakeoil certificates and MITM proxies at work?

Perhaps the same underlying cause, but there's no reason why Google's public CA being temporarily down would bring YouTube down.

If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.

It could prevent Google from rotating in new instances, because they aren't able to obtain a certificate.

Although, if that is the case, I would expect to to impact basically every google site.

Google uses mTLS for communications between systems and it could just be bad timing.

Yeah companies which also operate CAs can print as many certs as they want so it’s tempting to use a bunch everywhere with very short expiry.