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Putlocker not working, down or blocked? What to do

When Putlocker will not load, a search returns nothing or Watch now shows no services, one of five things is usually happening. Each has a fix that takes a minute.

Is Putlocker down?

The site itself is a set of pages served from one address, and it is rarely the part that fails. If the address does not load at all, first try it from a different connection: switch the phone from Wi-Fi to data, or the other way. If it loads on one and not the other, the network you were on is filtering it, and the proxy and VPN page covers that. If it loads on neither, wait a few minutes and try once more; a brief outage at the host is the only case where the site is genuinely down, and it passes.

Most "putlocker is down" searches come from people using a copy of the site on another suffix. Copies go down for good. The official address is the one to use.

The page loads but looks wrong

A page with no colours, no posters or a menu spread down the left edge is a page whose stylesheet did not load. Reload once. If it still looks wrong, clear the site's data in your browser settings and reload again; a stale copy of the stylesheet from an earlier visit is the usual cause after an update. On a phone, closing the tab and opening the site fresh from its icon does the same job.

Search returns nothing

Search needs JavaScript, so a browser with scripts disabled or a content blocker set to strict will show "Loading results" and stop there. Allow scripts for this site and search comes back. If search works but returns no titles, the query is the problem: remove a filter, widen the year range, try the other spelling or the original-language title, or switch Type to All. The search guide walks through it.

Watch now shows nothing for my country

Watch now opens the title on the services that carry it in the country you chose on the title page. A title that is on six services in the United States can be on two in Australia and none in a third country that week. Change the country from the menu above the button and the list changes with it. If no service carries it where you are yet, the title page still holds the synopsis, the cast and the seasons; mark it in My List and check back, because titles move between services constantly.

Video will not play

Playback happens inside the service you opened from Watch now, so a frozen or stuttering video is a question for that service's player. The fixes that work almost every time: close other tabs and apps, drop the quality one step if the player offers it, reload the player page, and on a television restart the app. On a slow connection, HD needs roughly five megabits a second; below that, the player will buffer. The HD page has the numbers.

My List or my episode marks disappeared

My List, your country and your episode marks live in the browser you set them in. They vanish if that browser's site data is cleared, if you are in a private window, or if you open the site in a different browser or on a different device. Export My List from its page before clearing anything, and import the file on the new device; the export is a small file that carries your titles and your episode marks.

Is Putlocker still available?

Yes. The site is at the address you are reading, with search, new movies, featured films, years, the A-Z list, every season of every series, My List and Watch now. That is the whole answer to "which putlocker site works": this one.

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