Exception in newpipe

[aramirezdeluoc-cmd]

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Affected version

During execution of videos

Steps to reproduce the bug

1 continuous reproduction on newpipe

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_lQ7x3t__o
• Content Country: ES
• Content Language: es-ES
• App Language: es_ES
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-03-17T18:03:29.947+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.3
• OS: Linux Android 11 - 30

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:684)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:656)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:423)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:269)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:60)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:802)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:615)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:90)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:132)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:420)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)

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Expected behavior

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[AudricV]

• I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version given here: CLICK THIS LINK

Version: 0.28.3

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