[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.

[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.

[maitw3g3]

Isnt that strange it stops at almost exactly 1 minute mark?

[theprivacydesigner]

I’m experiencing a similar issue — after a minute or two of playback (in the foreground), I get a “network error” and the video stops playing.

I’m using a VPN.

The solution for me was to change server. Not just change country/city but drill down on a specific location and change which server is used.

[funsafe-ptr]

@theprivacydesigner Does it last? 🤔 Mine requires server hopping 🔄 after some time. 🕒

[Leopard1907]

Most of the time videos doesnt even start for me.

Also lol at that "ASAP" tag, steadily going into two months with this issue.

[Sadia2000]

Cut the devs some slack, they are migrating to a completely new code base so delays are kinda expected.

[theprivacydesigner]

@theprivacydesigner Does it last? 🤔 Mine requires server hopping 🔄 after some time. 🕒

Yesterday it worked for ~45 minutes without hiccups.
I didn’t try beyond that.

[86ul]

Over at PipePipe, they came to the conclusion of an IP block: InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe#702

[viralvaghela99]

"I've been facing issues with NewPipe for the past week. Whenever I try to play a video, it doesn't start on the first attempt. After retrying three times, the video finally plays, but it feels like there’s an ad trying to load in the background (even though I can’t see it). Additionally, if the video starts playing, it often stops abruptly after about 1 minute. This has made the app almost unusable for me. Please look into this problem or let me know if there's a fix.

[guybrushdent]

The 1-minute issue is linked to the block/inaccessibility of jnn-pa.googleapis.com

[VladStanimir]

It looks like this app is not the only one affected.
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/308873449/all-videos-stop-playing-after-1-minute?hl=en

[dogtopus]

It looks like this app is not the only one affected.

This is also kind of known, in the sense that the 403 error can be triggered on multiple occasions, as it's likely just one of YouTube's ways of blocking "unauthorized clients". It won't be surprising to see some other clients having the same error, that might just be completely unrelated to the issue NewPipe is facing.

[dhananroy]

I m using snaptube and vidmate both working fine, what type of concept they are using they are not affected by any changes by YouTube.

[86ul]

I think I have found a workaround: only skip to the next video after the 01:00 minute mark, thus a bit longer than a short. This seem to help me. In case I skip earlier to the next, I get the error again. Thus try to skip after a full minute of watching...

Thus a fingerprint&cookie issue indeed to 'know' you are a human, by watching longer than 1 minute...

[oldhubEr]

I have moto g power 2022 with Surfshark vpn.

I'm using the same VPN.

Just wanted to say that things look much better after updating to 0.27.5

[YussefR]

Same issue. Graphene os, error 403 on every video for playback, forget download. Allowed all permissions and exploit protection compatibility mode.