From 9e45c8001abe549dd59271b07101e6110c620249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AudricV <74829229+AudricV@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:48:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [YouTube] Do not send a visitorData for every InnerTube
 request

As YouTube is disabling ability to use a random visitor ID in a
visitorData on player requests and BotGuard challenges, it
shouldn't matter if we use a random one or not for other
request types.
---
 .../services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java | 18 +-----------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
index 782ec6cb4..d6efbfb94 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeParsingHelper.java
@@ -1065,22 +1065,7 @@ public final class YoutubeParsingHelper {
     @Nonnull
     public static JsonBuilder<JsonObject> prepareDesktopJsonBuilder(
             @Nonnull final Localization localization,
-            @Nonnull final ContentCountry contentCountry)
-            throws IOException, ExtractionException {
-        return prepareDesktopJsonBuilder(localization, contentCountry, null);
-    }
-
-    @Nonnull
-    public static JsonBuilder<JsonObject> prepareDesktopJsonBuilder(
-            @Nonnull final Localization localization,
-            @Nonnull final ContentCountry contentCountry,
-            @Nullable final String visitorData)
-            throws IOException, ExtractionException {
-        String vData = visitorData;
-        if (vData == null) {
-            vData = randomVisitorData(contentCountry);
-        }
-
+            @Nonnull final ContentCountry contentCountry) throws IOException, ExtractionException {
         // @formatter:off
         return JsonObject.builder()
                 .object("context")
@@ -1092,7 +1077,6 @@ public final class YoutubeParsingHelper {
                         .value("originalUrl", "https://www.youtube.com")
                         .value("platform", DESKTOP_CLIENT_PLATFORM)
                         .value("utcOffsetMinutes", 0)
-                        .value("visitorData", vData)
                     .end()
                     .object("request")
                         .array("internalExperimentFlags")