YouTube fixed a problem with its recommendations system that caused more than 350,000 users to experience problems with the ...

Sunday’s inadvertent disruption of Google’s YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet’s design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.

YouTube experienced a major global outage on February 17–18, 2026, leaving millions of users unable to access the platform and triggering widespread ‘Something Went Wrong’ errors.

YouTube stopped working for millions of people around the world. Google said there was a technical problem and told everyone ...