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Google Public CA is down

aloknnikhil | 2026-02-18 01:05 UTC | source
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There is an ongoing incident that will force issuance to be halted.

Incident began at 2026-02-17 11:18 (all times are US/Pacific).

Date Time Description
17 Feb 2026 12:14 PST

Issuance is beginning to stop.

A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours
17 Feb 2026 11:32 PST

A rollout is going to prevent issuance from occurring. We will provide an estimate on when issuance will stop.
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Comments

dijit | 2026-02-18 01:07 UTC
youtube (recommendations/homepage) also seems down, I wonder if its relater.
dyauspitr | 2026-02-18 01:35 UTC
I can see all the videos and play the ones in my subscription tab though.
tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-18 01:40 UTC
Oh no, whatever will we do without the inundation of e-thot shorts and AI-generated weight loss snake oil scam videos?
bethekidyouwant | 2026-02-18 01:42 UTC
Never see these. Skill issue?
kidfiji | 2026-02-18 01:11 UTC
Ah, so that’s probably why YouTube is also down (at the time of this comment)
ekr____ | 2026-02-18 01:21 UTC
Perhaps the same underlying cause, but there's no reason why Google's public CA being temporarily down would bring YouTube down.
silverquiet | 2026-02-18 01:22 UTC
If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.
qmarchi | 2026-02-18 01:32 UTC
Google uses mTLS for communications between systems and it could just be bad timing.
thayne | 2026-02-18 02:38 UTC
It could prevent Google from rotating in new instances, because they aren't able to obtain a certificate.

Although, if that is the case, I would expect to to impact basically every google site.

gzread | 2026-02-18 01:31 UTC
I am playing a YouTube video (since the time of this comment) and it has not been interrupted.
dyauspitr | 2026-02-18 01:34 UTC
You can still see your subscription videos, just not the homepage.
brikym | 2026-02-18 01:48 UTC
I am too. But I just loaded up a new youtube page and it's completely white except for a few menu buttons.
aaronmiler | 2026-02-18 01:11 UTC
Heroku having service issues, dependency related?
flaxxer | 2026-02-18 01:48 UTC
seeing heroku issues here too, had assumed it was salesforce's fault, bc of course they are eventually going to destroy heroku somehow, right?
microm | 2026-02-18 01:18 UTC
All is down in eu too
rolph | 2026-02-18 01:18 UTC
https://status.pki.goog/
Kapura | 2026-02-18 01:22 UTC
Good thing I have nebula.tv for when youtube breaks
benatkin | 2026-02-18 01:27 UTC
Isn't that the thing that a bunch of YouTube creators pitch inside their channels along with VPNs and supplements? I would never consider it because the ads rub me the wrong way. Or is it some alternative frontend for YouTube that happens to have a similar sounding name?
qmarchi | 2026-02-18 01:33 UTC
Not quite. It's a co-op, where the creators own the shares of the company.

Supposedly a more holistic approach to video hosting with less oversight from the platform itself.

hylaride | 2026-02-18 01:49 UTC
It's a place for creators to host long form content (that the google algorithm now disincentivizes) as well as history content that can't show a lot of history because of "violence" (like the holocaust).

Youtube is demonetizing channels left, right, and centre.

kittoes | 2026-02-18 01:50 UTC
Nebula is actually quite a decent alternative/supplement to YouTube and worth the subscription IMHO.
LPisGood | 2026-02-18 01:54 UTC
It is a co-op where creators make videos without the threat of being demonetized or algorithmically punished - and it’s not garbage in the way you might expect people fearful of being demonetized might be.

Lots of excellent legal analysis, history, logistics, engineering content there.

It was initially founded by some of the most popular information YouTubers like CGPGrey, but he mysteriously left the project (I suspect one side wanted to be evil and the other side did not)

h4ch1 | 2026-02-18 01:22 UTC
Thought my Revanced patch got outdated for a second. Phew.
ddtaylor | 2026-02-18 01:43 UTC
Have you had to update microG yet?
lawgimenez | 2026-02-18 01:22 UTC
Down here in Southeast Asia
Thaxll | 2026-02-18 01:24 UTC
Hmm why youtube does not work but google.com does.

Now I'm wondering if you rely on OCSP in a TLS client and the pki is Google does it still works?

kbelder | 2026-02-18 01:33 UTC
Interesting. If you go to youtube.com it's all messed up; missing all the videos in the listings. But if you follow a video embedded in another site to youtube, it'll show and play fine. It'll break if you try to browse away from it.
arkryal2 | 2026-02-18 01:45 UTC
Yeah, YouTube is not one server, it's hundreds of them. The videos are served mostly from CDNs (the Content Distribution Network). It's a different set of servers than handles account logins, routing, etc.

Some Google Services are also down at the moment, unrelated to YouTube, so probably a failure along some common infrastructure pipeline.

Your History, Subscriptions and search should all work. You should be able to see any creator's page if you go to it directly. The videos are all still watchable. It's primarily the home page and recommended videos that are having issues. Basically any place they recommend videos you haven't seen is broken right now, but the videos are still there and accessible.

I've tried via VPN from the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Germany, Russia, Colombia, etc. Same issue across the board.

arcfour | 2026-02-18 02:57 UTC
OCSP is deprecated and basically dead at this point. Some clients still use it but I don't think many (any?) have actually enforced OCSP for years since it was notoriously fickle anyways.
1970-01-01 | 2026-02-18 01:24 UTC
Did someone buy the google.com domain again?