[Bug] Age Restricted Video Can't Be Playing

[DarkHorse313]

Checklist

• I make sure that the issue is NOT a duplicate of pinned issues
• I make sure I am using the LATEST version - check here
• I understand that issues with limited impact, such as those occurring on specific devices or under specific network conditions, will not be fixed
• I have attached the error report in the issue

Describe the bug

Age Restricted Video Can't Being played. Please Fix this problem.

Frequency

Always (100% of the time)

Device

No response

Steps to reproduce the bug

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Additional context

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[androidguy28]

Have you logged out and logged back in since the latest update?

[00yunje]

I'm having the same issue on OnePlus 13R running Android 16; I logged out and logged back in after the latest update, restarted the app, no change so far.

[ballerbude]

Same issue on the Pixel 8 Pro with GrapheneOS. I logged out and back in after the latest update multiple times. Still always receiving "Network error".

[InfinityLoop1308]

@00yunje @ballerbude
please share error report

[InfinityLoop1308]

and do you have error on all videos? or only age-restricted videos? are livestreams affected?

[00yunje]

Exception

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuG8fmZfwU
• Content Country: CA
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_CA
• Service: YouTube (Logged in)
• Version: 4.9.0
• OS: Linux Android 16 - 36

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.AgeRestrictedContentException: This age-restricted video cannot be watched anonymously
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.YoutubeParsingHelper$1.onSuccess(YoutubeParsingHelper.java:1551)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.DownloaderImpl$1.onResponse(DownloaderImpl.java:378)
	at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealCall$AsyncCall.run(RealCall.kt:519)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1154)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:652)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1563)

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I only get this error on age restricted videos. Livestreams seem unaffected