The internet appears to be breaking again.
On Tuesday morning, at 11:48 UTC, Cloudflare confirmed its global network is experiencing issues impacting “multiple customers.”
Here’s the full statement published on the site’s status page.
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Investigating – Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.
Nov 18, 2025 – 11:48 UTC
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Cloudflare is a service that “powers Internet requests for millions of websites and serves 78 million HTTP requests per second on average,” according to its site. In short, when Cloudflare has problems, the internet has problems. Users on X are already reporting issues, and Down Detector — the site that’s normally a go-to for checking what’s broken and what’s not — appears to be having issues itself. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
Credit: Downdetector
It’s worth noting this isn’t the first time Cloudflare has experienced major issues. Large portions of the internet went down back in June due to Cloudflare disruption, causing problems for users of Twitch, Etsy, Discord, and Google.
Which parts of the internet are affected?
Here’s a working list of all the sites and services affected by the Cloudflare outage:
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Archive of Our Own
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Canva
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Depop
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Downdetector
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Grindr
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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
Many sites impacted 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.
