PlayTube Unable to load Videos

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Hi everyone,

​I’m currently facing a frustrating issue with PlayTube. Whenever users install the app, it is completely unable to extract videos, despite having a stable internet connection.

​For context, PlayTube relies on the NewPipe Extractor to fetch streams. From the reports I’ve received, this issue appears to be isolated primarily to users in European countries.

​I am trying to determine the root cause and find a fix. My current theories are:

  • ​EU Cookie Consent Requirements: Are European users being blocked because the extractor needs to send specific cookie consents (like YES+) to bypass region-specific privacy pop-ups?

  • ​Geo-Location / Anti-Bot Restrictions: Is YouTube flagging or restricting anonymous requests from certain IPs in these regions?

​Has anyone else encountered this regional extraction issue when using the NewPipe Extractor? If so, is there a known workaround, or a specific configuration or header I should be passing?

​Any guidance, solutions, or insights would be greatly appreciated!

​Thanks in advance!

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note that the EU laws never asked for “consent” prompts or overlays, that’s FUD launched by the ads industry

this year EU wants to remove them and have a browser setting BUT ads industry keeps insisting to keep the dark patterns in overlays and prompts

anyway, did you test with Newpipe first?

google does a lot of these. even “per video”, if one gets too popular it will block you and ask for login

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Didn’t test it with newpipe, gonna try it. Thanks for the help!