India, Dec. 5 -- A major Cloudflare outage severely affected several online platforms on Friday, December 5, including Blinkit. The disruption, which appeared without warning, pushed a long list of apps and websites into temporary downtime. Blinkit was among the most visible, with users immediately turning to social media to check whether the service had stopped working.

Cloudflare acknowledged a technical fault affecting parts of its network. The impact reached trading platforms, delivery apps, fintech tools, and enterprise systems, as reported by Moneycontrol.

Blinkit's outage surfaced within minutes, as several users were left confused when the app froze on the payment screen or just wouldn't load.

Market platforms such as Zerodha, ...