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Numerous South Africans complained about very slow video buffering on the popular Google-owned streaming platform over several days in the last week of 2022.

about very slow video buffering on the popular Google-owned streaming platform over several days in the last week of 2022.

Others said the problem only occurred on the smartphone, TV, and console YouTube apps and not when using the service on a browser. Another ISP told MyBroadband that the issue was impacting providers with and without on-network Google Global Caches — suggesting it was not limited to certain ISPs.One of the ISPs also told MyBroadband that a representative for the Internet giant had initially denied that Google was responsible for the problems, but later acknowledged it was investigating the issue.

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