Every video I play says "Content unavailable"

[GiornoRanger]

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Affected version

0.27.6

Steps to reproduce the bug

Clicking on any video kills it

Expected behavior

Click on a video
Error message, cant do anything
The only buttons that pop up are "report" and "open in youtube"

Actual behavior

Nothing-

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ozmU9cJDg
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2025-04-23T16:02:49.956-05:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.6
• OS: Linux samsung/e1qsqw/e1q:14/UP1A.231005.007/S921USQU4AXK5:user/release-keys 14 - 34

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ContentNotAvailableException: Got error: "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot"
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.checkPlayabilityStatus(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:901)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.throwExceptionIfPlayerResponseNotValid(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:995)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.fetchHtml5Client(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:960)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:819)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:77)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:118)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$bVfA-5gb6gDc8jcAgcGWG5oH0FE(ExtractorHelper.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16144)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:307)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Samsung

Affected device model

Galaxy S24

Additional information

No response

[zeropi2021]

Same thing with me. (0.27.6 and 0.27.6-1033-202504120112)

Whereas when on the same device the web browser also doesn't play because YT tells you to log in "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"... Different PC, different OS, different ISP and same thing!
So it looks global.

Either they broke something or they are changing their approach to access.

The problem is that NewPipe doesn't have a login function for an account, I guess?
PipePIpe has such a function and I checked it works, but...

So the solution for NewPipe would be to add account support or some magic proxy that will trick yt._

Update:
It looks like it started working correctly. So YT mixed something up...

Update 2:
However, it seems that only the IP address that was used to log into the account starts working, and after some time even NewPipe without an account starts working. But the IP from which the account is not logged in still seems to have a problem.