Netflix suffers global PC/web outage with video player freezing or not playing

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Netflix is ​​experiencing a global outage that renders titles unplayable and causes the video player to freeze on desktop computers when accessed either via the Windows app or via the web regardless of browser. Playback on mobile and television is not affected.

Reports started surfacing in the last hour or so on social media platforms like X and Redditwhere users report that they can’t watch anything on Netflix. We also have issues with some titles playing but without any controls or titles freezing completely. Down Detector is too reported an increase in problems over the past hour.

The The official Netflix status page says Netflix has a problem confirms: “You may be having trouble streaming titles on a computer. Please try a different device or try again later.”

The news comes after Netflix had problems over the weekend Outer Banks having audio glitches and/or no audio playing at all on some of the brand new episodes, though that issue was largely resolved from what we can tell. As a quick side note, we also wrote an article this morning about the so-called Enshittifcation of Netflix, where we talked about how Netflix has lacked production and technical innovation over the past few years, and that the product is getting noticeably worse.

Can you access Netflix on your desktop right now? Tell us in the comments.