The number of complaints about YouTube malfunctions has exceeded 32 thousand, according to the service’s statistics.Sboi.rf” Russians report that the video service does not open in browsers on desktop computers, and there are also frequent cases when the video has stopped playing in applications on iPhones and smartphones running Android.
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Reports of failures come from Moscow (21%), St. Petersburg (9%), Krasnodar Krai (6%) and other regions of Russia. In some cases, YouTube videos are played when working in mobile networks, but stop showing when connected to Wi-Fi. For some users, the service began to open in the desktop version of the Apple Safari browser, while Google Chrome experienced a significant slowdown.
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Almost all desktop browsers in Russia stopped playing high-quality YouTube videos on August 3; on August 8, Russians began to complain that the service had stopped opening in the web version altogether — while the Android app continued to work normally.
Rostelecom warned of possible problems with YouTube on July 12. The authorities explained that the failures could be related to the operation of Google’s caching equipment in Russia, but denied any plans to block the platform. The American company stated that it was not experiencing any technical problems. And the Roskomnadzor structure requested information from telecom operators about the Google Global Cache servers installed in their networks.
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