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InnerTube is YouTube’s first party internal API that the web client and mobile apps use to interact with videos and get details about them. One way to fix this for cold loads is to just remove that initial data to force YouTube to make a player request we can control (but see below before using these): It completely breaks livestreams, and probably some other things I haven’t tested It causes the video player to briefly flash It slows the page loading time

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