Looks like Youtube is fucking things up again,

Just press repeat a few times and it works.

The extent of the problem seems to be progressing. The retry button worked for me for the most part at first but then by the next day had stopped working at all. Interestingly though, I discovered that loading the video in portrait mode first, hitting the play button and waiting for it to actually begin playing before going landscape seems to work. Don't get why that makes a difference.
- @Jimmycrackcrack @Lemmchen For me retry still works. I wonder for how long though, sounds like A/B testing...

Refreshing a couple times does the job until next patch comes out

This time they started blocking both residential IP addresses and VPNs to discourage yt-dlp, NewPipe etc. From what I noticed, you need to use official website to load cookies and maintain that session to continue watching videos. It's irritating. I hope they fuck themselves and go out of business.

But if they are blocking residential IPs, how can I watch my Video on normal youtube? Or are the just gonna fuck everyone because a few people are using things such as newpipe?
- It's not because of normal users, it's because of AI companies. Whatever open tools are developed to circumvent tracking are immediately also being used to suck up all data for training material.
  
  These companies use residential proxies to circumvent normal scraping detection. False positives are collateral damage to them.
- They block 3rd party tools like yt-dlp, NewPipe etc from residential IP addresses. Probably they deployed solutions to differentiate normal YouTube session on their website and automated tools.

Im having similar issues with grayjay, freetube and newpipe. Non of them are working atm. Youtube is going downhill faster than it already was.

@Shape4985 @biancotitanio For me just pressing retry a few times fixes it. But maybe that's just a/b testing and it will stop working completely in a few days :/
- @nikos @Shape4985 @biancotitanio Same with haruna, the #kde net-enabled videoplayer.
  I can still view some videos using newpipe, but sometimes it gets network errors during play. 😐

@biancotitanio @newpipe They are doing their best 😐
My approach is to open in duckduckgo browser, using its yt player.

Can't even open 18+ videos (which is a bummer cuz some are marked 18+ for stupid reason)

Yeah happened to me too

Wipe cached metadata in settings will at least temporarily fix the error.

I just got an ad today on youtube.com despite using uBO (also froze the browser for a few moments)

yep I had this sad smily face again, until I upgraded newpipe 🙄 Why do they need to change their API?

I have a feeling youtube will become more hostile, google as the owner of youtube will become more evil & extractive on the platform.
blocking ads breaks their terms of serive, they want us to pay for yt-premium

I still remember the time invidious worked for me in 2024. Now that one does not work for months.

@biancotitanio @newpipe
NewPipe 0.27.5 https://newpipe.net/ la mise à jour qui corrige le problème.