• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    YT changes were anti-bot in nature according to the extractor hotfix PR; I guess YT considers NP a bot or something.

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      4 months ago

      To elaborate, while the errors in the middle of videos were because of general anti-bot measures, the errors at the beginning of videos were caused by a change that specifically targets third-party clients like NewPipe and youtube-dl. This is definitely part of an arms race.