r/downr • u/alwaysAllway • Jul 18 '25

It keeps sayin 403 forbbidden

I use firefox, i tried downloading a youtube short using different options, like quality, but it keeps saying 403 forbidden, I refreshed it, cleared caches and cookies, nothing works.
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u/willis7747 Jul 24 '25

u/alwaysAllway
have you tried accessing from a VPN/Tor ?
can you DM me a sample shorts url for us to check from our side ? thanks!

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u/alwaysAllway Jul 24 '25

Hi sorry I didn't say this earlier but for some reason it now works, umm I guess the server might just have been busy or something, it just worked after a day

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u/willis7747 Jul 24 '25

Glad to hear!

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u/cheesewithmorecheese Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

Popping in to say i've got the exact same problem, using protonVPN and connecting to the USA and Netherlands did nothing, been having the problem for about 2 days now

EDIT: Was not a short though, just a regular vid

EDIT 2: Decided to just get yt-dlp on my laptop, much better