Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord and Google, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

Numerous sites and apps are experiencing problems this afternoon but, as of Thursday evening, those services were starting to recover.

Google began offering “dark web reports” a while back, but the company has just announced the feature will be going away very soon. In an email to users of the service, Google says it will stop ...