The internet appears to be encountering disruptions once more.

On Tuesday morning, at 11:48 UTC, Cloudflare acknowledged that its worldwide network is experiencing challenges affecting “multiple customers.”

Here is the complete statement released on the site’s status page.

Cloudflare Global Network facing challenges

Investigating – Cloudflare is aware of, and scrutinizing an issue which may impact multiple customers. Additional details will be shared as more information becomes accessible.

Nov 18, 2025 – 11:48 UTC

Cloudflare is a service that “facilitates Internet requests for millions of websites and handles 78 million HTTP requests per second on average,” according to its website. Essentially, when Cloudflare experiences difficulties, the internet is impacted. Users on X are already reporting problems, and Down Detector, a platform typically used to monitor outages, seems to be encountering issues itself.

It is noteworthy that this is not the first incidence of significant issues for Cloudflare. Large segments of the internet were disrupted in June due to Cloudflare’s problems, causing complications for users of Twitch, Etsy, Discord, and Google.

Which areas of the internet are impacted?

Here’s a current list of all the sites and services affected by the Cloudflare outage:

• Archive of Our Own

• Canva

• Depop

• Downdetector

• Grindr

• League of Legends

• Open AI

• Spotify

• X (Twitter)

‘Please unlock Cloudflare challenges’ error

Numerous sites affected by the Cloudflare outage, including OpenAI.com, are showing an error message that states, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.”

This is an evolving story and will be updated as new information arises.