Developer Update - 22 May 2025

[Salbug]

If you’re having issues with YouTube videos playing, not much can be done there.

Specifically Youtube videos not playing as of yesterday

Related to this. There have been issues with yt-dlp recently that have been more or less on YouTube’s side. See these relevant GitHub issues. {YouTube} Immediate HTTP Error 403 on download {YouTube} Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community 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 produce…