YouTube outage resolved after fix to recommendations system across all surfaces
TL;DR
YouTube outage affecting the homepage, app, and YouTube TV was traced to a problems with the recommendations system; after a fix, services are back to normal across all surfaces, with TeamYouTube promising continued work on a full fix.
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