Gmail, YouTube and more, live: the latest as Google suffers a major outage

As things start to come back, it’s worth remembering that things could be worse, it could be August. In summer, they went down to six hours. It even has its own Wikipedia article.

What’s perhaps strangest of all is the fact that Google never said why that happened, and it hasn’t explained these issues either.

Reports of problems seem to decrease and services seem to come back to life. (As an anecdote, I can go back).

It has been almost 45 minutes since the problems first arose, and they still seem as frequent and significant as before.

Updating the status page means that Google has finally addressed the issue, although it doesn’t provide much information about it. Here’s what it says: it’s the same for whatever service you look at, although this is Gmail’s.

“We are aware of an issue with Gmail that affects the majority of users. Affected users cannot access Gmail. We will provide an update by 12/14/20 12:12 pm detailing when we expect to resolve the issue. Please note Note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change. “

The “Google Workspace Health Dashboard”, which tracks business outages, has been stubbornly green throughout the troubles. Now it’s red all over.

It seems that YouTube is working if you try to enter the site in incognito mode, and that the problem has to do with being logged in. So you may still be able to watch videos that way.

(Obviously, that solution is impossible for Google’s other services, which by their very nature require you to log in.)

… To The Independent’s live coverage of an outage that has removed Gmail and YouTube.