The internet seems to be broken again.
On Tuesday morning, at 11:48 UTC, Cloudflare confirmed that its global network was experiencing issues affecting “multiple customers.”
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Full details are published on the status page of the site here.
Cloudflare is experiencing global network problems
Investigating – Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue that potentially impacts multiple customers. More details will be provided as more information becomes available.
November 18, 2025 – 11:48 UTC
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Cloudflare is a service that “powers Internet requests for millions of websites and serves an average of 78 million HTTP requests per second,” according to its site. In short, when Cloudflare has problems, the Internet has problems too. Users on (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
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It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Cloudflare has faced major problems. The Cloudflare outage shut down large swaths of the internet in June, causing problems for users of Twitch, Etsy, Discord, and Google.
Which parts of the Internet are affected?
Here’s a running list of all the sites and services affected by the Cloudflare outage:
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our own archive
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Canva
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depot
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downdetector
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Grinder
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League of Legends
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open ai
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spotify
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X (Twitter)
‘Please unlock Cloudflare challenges’ error
Several sites affected by the Cloudflare outage, including OpenAI.com, are displaying an error message that reads, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.”
This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.