India, March 10 -- Internet users reported trouble with their Google Chromecast on Sunday evening. DownDetector also subsequently reported the outage, noting netizens' problems.

"Google, WTF?! 2nd gen chromecast got sh*t update a while ago. Instead of "upgrade," the user is getting a downgrade. Not just me, a hundred of users in reddit are getting the same problem too," a user wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

With more and more screenshots of prompts saying "We couldn't authenticate your Chromecast" surging on the social media platform, another user tweeted: "Someone at Google is getting fired. It seems that every Chromecast in the world has been bricked by a bad software update. Oops!"

A third posted, "Congratulations to @madebygoogle wh...