Add shorts player parameters to help with 403s #7763
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Not seeing that error with the same video
https://youtu.be/ri456VSTGwA
If you can reproduce it with certain videos please provide them (or show how it's caused by this PR
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cant reproduce it anymore, LGTM
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Related issue
Description
This pull request introduces a temporary workaround to help with the recent HTTP 403 errors. These are the same player parameters that yt-dlp uses.
Testing
Try watching a few videos and check that the 403s are gone or at least occur less frequently.
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