VDH stopped recognising downloadable videos on Youtube approximatelty 17:00 GMT in UK

[frogandspanner]

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VDH stopped recognising downloadable videos on Youtube approximatelty 17:00 GMT in UK.
I was using Firefox 140.0.2 (64 bit) with VDH 9.5.0.2 Companion App (v2.0.19) and had just downoaded a video successfully, then (without exiting Firefox) tried to download another - but my balls didn't get excited and light up - VDH did not recognise a video to download.

There have been previous occasions when this has happened for 30 minutes or so, so I waited, and waited, then rebooted, and it still does not detect videos.

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.5.0.2
target: mozilla
channel: stable
lang: en-GB
coapp: {"found":true,"path":"/home/tc/m_vartaxos/cbsun1/00tc/Computing/Video Download Helper (VDH)/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp-2.0.19/vdhcoapp","version":"2.0.19","new_version":false}
license: {"unneeded":true}
platform: x86-64 linux
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
{
"privacy_accept": true,
"never_show_no_incognito_msg_again": true,
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": false,
"low_quality": false,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": false,
"show_button_convert_local": false,
"hide_downloaded": false
},
"open_count_store": 4,
"successfull_dl": 28,
"never_show_successfull_dl_message": true
}

[GrampaWildWilly]

I do not work for VDH. I am just another user. Also, please read #2214.

You'll want to look at some comments I made in #2190 down near the end of the discussion.

[frogandspanner]

It began working again a few hours later.

There seem to be strange outages when VDH fails to recognise any downloadable video, but things start working without my having to do anything. I am beginning to suspect that outages occur when YouTube servers are having software updated.