[YouTube] HTTP error 403 for playback or download

[LostFl0ptrop1can]

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Affected version

0.27.4

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Play any video that has music tagged by YT
2. Play in Background
3. Wait

Expected behavior

It should play normally till the end

Actual behavior

It stopped midway and error 403

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZbVCs3EJUA
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.4
• OS: Linux Android 11 - 30

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:236)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

No response

Affected device model

Xiaomi Redmi 9 4/64 MTK Helio G80

Additional information

No response

[GermanG]

Almost the same case but it has a 403 after close to a minute (0:58 0:59)
It happened yesterday for the first time and then worked again, today is breaking again, I'm trying to figure out and reproduce it more consistently.

[klaurence]

This seems like a resurgence of #11191.

[LJNeon]

I'm struggling with this issue as well. Currently EVERY video will fail to load around the one minute mark, except when I play in the background. The issue disappears if I disable my VPN, but obviously I would rather not do so.

[Figim]

LibreTube plays videos directly from YouTube thanks to its local streaming extractor. Without piped proxy

However, this issue only occurs on DASH for LibreTube.
Mostly after 19:42. Nights

Maybe Solution: ReVanced said iOS spoofing didn't work well. Now Android TV is doing the spoofing. They had a similar problem too

Playback stopped after 1 minute.

Problem Link: ReVanced/revanced-patches#4176

[funsafe-ptr]

@LJNeon Try changing the VPN country, it worked for me.

[Figim]

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11868

[Egnosa]

This is happening to me but I am not using VPN and it doesn't even load the first minute.

Some videos load perfectly with no issues, others not at all.

[jimbattun]

I am experiencing an issue with video playback on my home Wi-Fi. On mobile data, everything works well. I noticed that the problem only occurs with certain videos:

Videos uploaded more than a week ago play without issues.
Newer videos (less than a week old) and very old ones (over three years old) do not play.
I tested different alternatives, but only the original YouTube app works properly.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help troubleshoot this issue.

[eternal-sorrow]

For me videos straight up don't start playing at all. No 1 minute mark, it just doesn't play, gives this error instead.

[eternal-sorrow]

SkyTube works with the same video on the same device without problem.

[Figim]

SkyTube works with the same video on the same device without problem.

This is sometimes auto corrected. It's not exactly the same time, in the same position.

[LJNeon]

I tried videos that don't work on newpipe in the browser and they play perfectly fine. So at least on my end this does seem like an issue with newpipe and not just youtube blocking VPNs after a minute.

[NoahJelen]

This issue happens to me when I play a playlist after a few songs.

[NoahJelen]

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11890
This may provide clues for a fix to this issue.

[Figim]

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11890 This may provide clues for a fix to this issue.

There are two issues. One is still not fixed.

This is not a solution. Apparently "potoken" should actually be given in any position if needed.

This: YouTube is experimenting with some sort of new aggressive IP-based block on videoplayback urls - perhaps to replace or complement the existing "sign in to confirm you are not a bot" error on the player endpoint. This produces an HTTP 403 error on videoplayback urls, regardless of client and protocol (HTTPS, DASH, HLS, UMP, SABR, ONESIE).

[welltoncosta]

Very aggressive. Sad, google, sad.

[Figim]

Very aggressive. Sad, google, sad.

Be patient and wait for the solution.

[homoludens]

Very aggressive. Sad, google, sad.

Might be off topic but I can not resist: Sooner they pull the plug, sooner we will leave yt. Since NP is not working I tried using their app and it is unusable, not just because of the adds, so I don't use it.

[Figim]

Very aggressive. Sad, google, sad.

Might be off topic but I can not resist: Sooner they pull the plug, sooner we will leave yt. Since NP is not working I tried using their app and it is unusable, not just because of the adds, so I don't use it.

For now, watch videos by turning on the HLS option on LibreTube. Let's wait for the problem to be resolved for DASH. The Http 403 bug mentioned above and the same type other http 403 bug fixed by ytdlp do not occur in HLS

YT requires potokens for formats in the middle and end of the video, and HLS is not affected yet.

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11868 (comment)

[Figim]

The best solution would be to crack Potoken. Because it is the cause of http 403 and other playback problems.

It simply generated an attestation token. Also with hardware attestation this will become impossible unless you got hw keys

As a solution: ReVanced/revanced-patches#2907

MicroG-enabled account support

Spoofing options should be increased: iOS tv, Android vr (auth), Android vr, Android tv. If one fails, switch to another.

ReVanced/revanced-patches#4180