Netflix Outage Leaves Tons Of Customers In The Dark

Like a citizen journalist tracking eventualities on the ground, Downdetector, a web service monitoring site functionality, logged a significant uptick in reports flagging Netflix’s outage at 5 PM ET. Unsurprisingly, beginning around this, viewers took to X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, Threads, Meta, Instagram, and more, to air their streaming grievances. Affected hardware devices ranged from Roku smart TVs to game consoles like PS5. Reports flew in from across the US—and the globe.When it came to other streaming providers, thankfully, service chugged along. Those enjoying Google or Amazon content did so uninterruptedly. Thus the specificity of the problem would hint at an issue unique to Netflix’s infrastructure or service delivery.