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Is freetube broken again? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by countrypunk@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Using mullvad VPN. Keeps giving me the bad https status 403 message no matter which server I switch to. Anybody else having this issue or has workarounds?

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[–] littlemiss@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I've been running into this all morning: [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block, streaming URL deciphering failed or music video geo-block

Switching VPN servers doesn't resolve.

edit: Keep an eye on this Github Issue It looks like they are aware of the problem, will likely see a fix for it in the coming hours/days.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Same. Seems like YouTube is back on their anti VPN and frontend spree which will inevitability have a workaround and then they'll be at it again. It's cyclical at this point.

[–] corvus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

It gives me exactly the same message but I'm not using a VPN. When I use the external viewer option with mpv using yt-dlp I only get video without audio. I can download the video fine using yt-dlp and then watch it with mpv, but if I try to stream to mpv while downloading to watch it real-time it gives an ffmpeg error: can't recognize format... weird.