The plugin.video.youtube addon has supported a newer url format for quite some time.
While the old format is meant to be deprecated, the fact that it is saved in the Kodi video database means that actually disabling support for the old query parameters may not actually be feasible.
Regardless, updating the format used by the Kodi scrapers would be the first step towards doing so.
rmrector
commented
3 months ago
The plugin.video.youtube addon has supported a newer url format for quite some time.
While the old format is meant to be deprecated, the fact that it is saved in the Kodi video database means that actually disabling support for the old query parameters may not actually be feasible.
Regardless, updating the format used by the Kodi scrapers would be the first step towards doing so.