As a result of measures to block YouTube, access to the service has decreased significantly. In fact, it is Dropped to 128 kilobits per secondwhich is equivalent to blocking. He notes that this will have significant consequences for both users and providers Techno 24Against this background, the so-called Russian mass media reported increased participation of their local counterparts.

What happened to YouTube in Russia?

The country’s largest telecommunications operators have been instructed to reduce the playback speed of videos on YouTube. The slowdown is achieved with the help of special TSPZ equipment (technical means of countering threats) installed in the networks of communications operators under the supervision of Roskomnadzor, the body that oversees censorship.

We will remind you that recently there was a “failure” on YouTube in Russia, which was later tried to be justified by Google’s old equipment. YouTube download speed on the desktop dropped from 40% to 70%.

The company responded to such an accusation and emphasized that there was no technical reason for Google’s failure. Users reported problems accessing the service to you.

Other Google services may be banned

Experts emphasize that additional measures that could be applied to other Google Internet products should not be ignored. This was already reported by one of the Russian providers ONS24, which warned its subscribers that access to all Google services could be blocked in the future.

We will remind that in Russia, similar mechanisms of slowing down the connection were previously used for the Twitter service and the Telegram messenger. Later, not only these services were affected, but Russians even experienced problems with state portals.