[kuylar]

YouTube currently bans every IP address with a lot of guest traffic. They have also banned all datacenter IP ranges.

Sometimes a "poToken" (a magic string that's used to 'validate' a client to prove that it's an official client) can be used to bypass this, but most of the time it's easier to just sign in with a Google account (which is also dangerous because YouTube has been banning accounts with unusual activity since last year[0])

Nowadays, most third party clients either use a browser/WebView to generate a poToken[1], or directly require a user to enter it for downloading[2]

I feel like the parent commenters issue is related to this, and it looks like there's an ongoing PR to implement support for it[3] (Invidious already had supported poTokens, hovewer their implementation were setting a single token in the config, and AFAIK that method doesn't work anymore)

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10085 [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/11955 [2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide#guide-p... [3] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4985