[NotesTracker]

In the past I've used JD to download lots of videos from YouTube without any issues. Today for the first time ever I encountered the error message "Ths video requires payment to watch" for this URL: ... **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**

I added my YouTube account to JD (never had to before), but even then the same error kept arising with the above URL. However other YouTube URLs worked fine, as always before, such as this spectacular surfing video from Bali: ... **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**

As a test, I found that the first URL worked okay -- without needing to authenticate -- via a different downloader (refer Allavsoft.com)

What's was going on here? Something that Google has implemented for certain videos, or something that the person who uploaded it did with that particular one?

[Jiaz]

The video is no longer available. Doesn't work in browser nor in youtube-dl. Maybe it's geo blocked, I can't test that. It now also shows a different error message.