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Netflix is experiencing a global outage that prevents titles from playing and causes the video player to freeze on desktop computers when accessed through the Windows app or the web, regardless of browser. Playback on mobile phones and TVs is not affected.
Over the past hour or so, reports started surfacing on social media platforms like X and Reddit, with users reporting that they were unable to watch anything on Netflix. We are also experiencing issues with some titles having no controls or completely freezing while playing. Down Detector is also reporting a spike in issues over the past hour.
Netflix’s official status page states that there is an issue that Netflix confirms. “You may be having trouble streaming the title on your computer. Please try a different device or try again later.”
The news comes after Netflix had issues over the weekend. outer banks Some of the new episodes experienced audio glitches or no audio at all, but as far as we can tell, that issue has mostly been resolved. Also, as a little side note, we wrote an article this morning about Netflix’s so-called Enshittifcation. There, we talked about the fact that Netflix has lacked production and innovation over the past few years, and the product has improved significantly. bad.
Can you currently access Netflix on your desktop? Let us know in the comments.
