Google is the same. Every time I open the stock gallery app instead of the FOSS one it nags me to enable backups for my photos. And I know if I do I will be forced to pay their subscription.

No, it’s when I connect with my ISP at home. If I use Mullvad VPN or if I actually login into YouTube web app, everything works fine.

Here’s the log from yt-dlp:

[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR1buRTIKhk

[youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading webpage

[youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading ios player API JSON

[youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading mweb player API JSON

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Unfortunately NewPipe will not help with that. I get this message in a browser and in NewPipe.