Video Not Avalible in My Country (Despite There Being no Problem 2 Seconds Ago)

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Attempt to load any video

Expected behavior

Videos loading normally

Actual behavior

Video is unable to load, giving an error message

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

## Exception

* __User Action:__ requested stream

* __Request:__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-RxJWWL12I

* __Content Country:__ US

* __Content Language:__ en-US

* __App Language:__ en_US

* __Service:__ YouTube

* __Timestamp:__ 2025-12-12T11:58:05.769-07:00

* __Package:__ org.schabi.newpipe

* __Service:__ YouTube

* __Version:__ 0.28.0

* __OS:__ Linux samsung/a35xsq/a35x:16/BP2A.250605.031.A3/A356USQU6CYI8:user/release-keys 16 - 36

<details><summary><b>Crash log </b></summary><p>

```

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.$r8$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: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)

```

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16

Affected device model

Galaxy A35 5G

Additional information

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