Netflix encountered a significant glitch, impacting over 300 million global users, including 81 million in the U.S. The major disruption, starting around 2 PM ET, prevented logins and streaming, with error codes plaguing users, especially in cities like New York and Los Angeles. Subscribers reported profile mix-ups and erroneous watch lists. Downdetector highlighted the widespread service failure, while frustrated users pushed Netflix for urgent fixes. This marks one of the most severe outages in recent times for the platform.