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Error while watching YouTube videos: "Got error: Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" #12473

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. I searched the word on app.
  2. I clicked on channel profile.
  3. I clicked on the video to watch.
  4. I changed my WiFi settings to Mobile data on phone (the video appears functional on mobile data), again I changed my Mobile data settings to wifi on phone.
  5. I close the video and opened.
  6. It won't play anything due to error, I've tried any videos and give Content unavailable.

Expected behavior

The videos would be playing as well.

Actual behavior

The videos is unavailable and by watching YouTube videos is saying the error Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot in any circumstances.

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Logs

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:904)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.throwExceptionIfPlayerResponseNotValid(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:948)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.fetchHtml5Client(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:917)
at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:823)
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$$ExternalSyntheticLambda8.call(D8$$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$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:348)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 13

Affected device model

Moto G62 5G

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