This hotfix release fixes HTTP 403 errors in the middle of YouTube videos.
New
[SoundCloud] Add support for on.soundcloud.com URLs TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1179
Improved
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To elaborate, while the errors in the middle of videos were because of general anti-bot measures, the errors at the beginning of videos were caused by a change that specifically targets third-party clients like NewPipe and youtube-dl. This is definitely part of an arms race.
YT changes were anti-bot in nature according to the extractor hotfix PR; I guess YT considers NP a bot or something.
To elaborate, while the errors in the middle of videos were because of general anti-bot measures, the errors at the beginning of videos were caused by a change that specifically targets third-party clients like NewPipe and youtube-dl. This is definitely part of an arms race.