[1vuio0pswjnm7]

"IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation."

Same experience. I have a commandline program I wrote to retrieve YouTube download URLs many years ago. On average it has always been more reliable than Newpipe. It continues to work when Newpipe fails and I can fix it quickly when there is a YouTube change

However I noticed recently Newpipe, the original, not SponsorBlock, old version, no updates, had been going many weeks without failure. When it eventually failed I was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address

Will try this again when it fails the next time

[fuzztester]

Why did you think of changing the ip address?

[brnt]

Rate limiting IP addresses is one of the many tools in YouTube's anti 3rd party client toolbox.

[fuzztester]

got it, thanks.