yt_dlp/extractor/dropout.py

@@ -119,16 +119,16 @@ class DropoutIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         display_id = self._match_id(url)
-
+        login_err, webpage = False, ''
-        webpage = None
+        try:
-        if self._get_cookies('https://www.dropout.tv').get('_session'):
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
-        if not webpage or '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
             login_err = self._login(display_id)
             webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
-            if login_err and '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
+        finally:
+            if not login_err:
+                self._download_webpage('https://www.dropout.tv/logout', display_id, note='Logging out', fatal=False)
+            elif '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
                 if login_err is True:
-                    self.raise_login_required(method='any')
+                    self.raise_login_required(method='password')
                 raise ExtractorError(login_err, expected=True)
 
         embed_url = self._search_regex(r'embed_url:\s*["\'](.+?)["\']', webpage, 'embed url')

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -2643,44 +2643,29 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         return sts
 
     def _mark_watched(self, video_id, player_responses):
-        for is_full, key in enumerate(('videostatsPlaybackUrl', 'videostatsWatchtimeUrl')):
+        playback_url = get_first(
-            label = 'fully ' if is_full else ''
+            player_responses, ('playbackTracking', 'videostatsPlaybackUrl', 'baseUrl'),
-            url = get_first(player_responses, ('playbackTracking', key, 'baseUrl'),
             expected_type=url_or_none)
-            if not url:
+        if not playback_url:
-                self.report_warning(f'Unable to mark {label}watched')
+            self.report_warning('Unable to mark watched')
             return
-            parsed_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)
+        parsed_playback_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(playback_url)
-            qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(parsed_url.query)
+        qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(parsed_playback_url.query)
 
         # cpn generation algorithm is reverse engineered from base.js.
         # In fact it works even with dummy cpn.
         CPN_ALPHABET = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_'
         cpn = ''.join(CPN_ALPHABET[random.randint(0, 256) & 63] for _ in range(0, 16))
 
-            # # more consistent results setting it to right before the end
-            video_length = [str(float((qs.get('len') or ['1.5'])[0]) - 1)]
-
         qs.update({
             'ver': ['2'],
             'cpn': [cpn],
-                'cmt': video_length,
-                'el': 'detailpage',  # otherwise defaults to "shorts"
         })
-
+        playback_url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
-            if is_full:
+            parsed_playback_url._replace(query=compat_urllib_parse_urlencode(qs, True)))
-                # these seem to mark watchtime "history" in the real world
-                # they're required, so send in a single value
-                qs.update({
-                    'st': video_length,
-                    'et': video_length,
-                })
-
-            url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
-                parsed_url._replace(query=compat_urllib_parse_urlencode(qs, True)))
 
         self._download_webpage(
-                url, video_id, f'Marking {label}watched',
+            playback_url, video_id, 'Marking watched',
             'Unable to mark watched', fatal=False)
 
     @staticmethod

yt_dlp/utils.py

@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
 
         req.headers = handle_youtubedl_headers(req.headers)
 
-        return super().do_request_(req)
+        return req
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):
         old_resp = resp