YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious

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    • A parameter was changed from '2AMBCgIQBg' to 'CgIIAdgDAQ%3D%3D' which is just the correct base64 encoding they should have been using the entire time.

    I don't think this was a hostile action by Google, I think someone just added better input validation for security reasons and it accidently broke the bad requests they were sending.

    https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=URL_Decode()From_Ba...

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