[YouTube] Workaround 403 HTTP errors of ANDROID client streams #960
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…se codes Using the player parameters used to get stories seems to fix the issue, which affects currently only certain countries such as UK. This is a workaround and should be fixed in a better way (by changing the InnerTube additional client used for videos or finding what is now required in Android player requests).
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This PR tries to workaround the new detection of third-party clients by YouTube with the
ANDROIDInnerTube client, returning HTTP 403 errors for stream URLs got from it, by using player parameters of stories. This behavior is currently A/B tested in some countries (like the video replacement when not providing required payload parameters and user-agent) (with around a 15% reproducible rate), such as UK.This issue needs to be investigated in the near future and affects other third-party clients which make use of this InnerTube client.
Fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#9038.