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If the youtube.com 302 failed to itself 302 back to the next destination; because the site is down; would that not be load bearing?

• Ferret7446 6mo ago
  You do not hit YouTube directly. You hit Google's frontend server which then does internal routing. Likely it would be able to route around it. Or rather, the auth part of YouTube is not the same as all of the other parts of YouTube. For big tech companies like Google, a website is not one single binary that serves requests, but a ton of services handling different things (and some of those services being caching so it doesn't show things down as you might think). It is highly unlikely that the main services comprising YouTube as a video streaming site would bring down Google auth