[Bug]: [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed

[Gevaarlijk]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

When I try to play a video as of today it says:

[Bug]: [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL dechipering failed

And does not play.

Expected Behavior

Play without error

Issue Labels

content not loading

FreeTube Version

0.23.0

Operating System Version

Windows 11

Installation Method

.apk (Alpine Linux Package)

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Duplicate of #6385

[raf-r]

I have the same problem. Ubuntu 24.04 Flatpak v0.23.0 Beta. I'm not using a VPN.

[Gevaarlijk]

The search on this platform doesn't work as intended since searching for my issue doesn't give that duplicate topic (or any) as a result.

[Gevaarlijk]

Also the other topic seems to talk about a VPN but I'm not running any VPN. I would write in that topic but it's locked. This is inefficient.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Hmm interesting we'll investigate. Issue stays closed until reproduced

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@Gevaarlijk are you using tor?

[jovial-snyder]

@Gevaarlijk are you sure you are using 0.23.0? I am asking because I had the same problem with 0.22.1 (without VPN) and now with 0.23.0 this is fixed (but #6678 still remains). In addition to that the information you provided (Operating System Version and Installation Method don't match)

[Gevaarlijk]

Not using any kind of VPN, no Tor either.

Issue seems to come and go now. Sometimes a video will start and then crash with this error and sometimes it will run and then again sometimes it won't start at all.

[Gevaarlijk]

@Gevaarlijk are you sure you are using 0.23.0? I am asking because I had the same problem with 0.22.1 and now with 0.23.0 this is fixed (but #6385 still remains). In addition to that the information you provided (Operating System Version and Installation Method don't match)

The issue started on 0.22.1. today. I then downloaded 0.23.0 thinking the new version would fix it but the same still happens.