Fix age-restricted videos breaking the watch page#8831
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TIL that video is age restricted on YT
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YouTube made some changes to how the WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER client works, so it currently throws errors in FreeTube, which means that instead of showing the age-restricted message to the user, we show an empty page with an error message. As fixing the WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER support still requires some investigation and the workaround only works for a very small number of age-restricted videos anyway, this pull request currently only fixes the watch page breaking so that we show the user friendly message as originally intended but doesn't fix the WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER requests.
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