The video stopped playing back and then kept oscillating continuously between saying that "YouTube forces us to wait for ('two seconds' or 'one second') before continuing playback." After the "one second" notice, it goes back to two seconds and it keeps oscillating forever. This is the first time I've ever seen this notice and am wondering who else here may have been experiencing this recently.

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[–] [S] 8 points 4 days ago

I've been having this for a fair few days now. I don't have the same issue with NewPipe so have been using that till this gets fixed. It's been reported here #2761

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Same issue here. Switching between mobile and wi-fi seems to work sometimes

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago*

    Been happening to me a lot just now. The debug app had a message recommending to enable "Share Visitor Data" under Advanced Settings, but I haven't tried it.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Could be related to this issue.

    I can corroborate that when I turn off my custom DNS it works swimmingly, until YouTube figured out to block my IP again.

    https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe/issues/2757

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I actually don't even know how to use a custom DNS, haha, but it's good that you were at least able to pinpoint the issue!

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I don't use PipePipe, but FreeTube. Since YouTube updated their system to use SABR (I don't even know what exactly that is, I just know it causes issues for us), I get sometimes a reload loop for some videos. In some cases my IP is blocked. Only a VPN helps in those cases. This plagues me / us for weeks and months. I'm surprised you didn't encounter this issue earlier; probably because the developers of the app you are using did a good job.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago

    same here 😔✌️ i rarely get past this and when i do i just do a bunch of random crap

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago*

    I just tried changing the extraction point to "android vr", that seems to get rid of the counter entirely. Videos just play normally now

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 days ago

    GrayJay is what I usually use. It's working currently.

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