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penagwin on Nov 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube Down

I vpn'd around, this appears to be global. While reading something unrelated my video suddenly started playing.

I think it's load balancer related for whatever is serving their videos

EDIT: Once you have a connection you appear to keep it the entire way through (at least it did for me with youtubedl). Something related to connection queueing...

rasz on Nov 12, 2020 [–]

yep, had long video opened (in mplayer) when this started. I stopped it while reading your post, trying to reconnect results in 502.

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