Microsoft Says YouTube Blocking Was a Glitch

[Hardware Canucks]

It looks as though an incident we reported on over the weekend has been explained. Apparently it was just a glitch causing YouTube links to be blocked by Messenger.

"As some of you noticed, we had a problem from Friday night to Saturday morning where our Messenger service was incorrectly blocking some legitimate IP addresses," a Microsoft employee said on the company's Messenger blog. "We sincerely apologize for any difficulties this caused our users."


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