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Not trivial at all, else they'd have done that already instead of playing cat & mouse. How would they differentiate whether it's the official app, some mobile browser, or newpipe? Changing the user agent or cloning a fingerprint from a browser is the trivial thing here.
Well if they're detecting active ad blockers then presumably they're running some client side js to decode the url if certain conditions are met.
I don't think think they've been playing cat & mouse with newpipe, they just break it by accident.
Have you heard of shape from f5 or similar services?
Nope, what's that?