The dreaded "an error occurred" message shows on every YouTube video

For the past ... I really don't know how long now, most of the time I just gave up, but I'm finally fed up with it ... YouTube has been displaying "An error occurred, please try again later" on any video I try to play; embedded or on YouTube, it doesn't matter.
Safe mode does not resolve the problem.
The only way I can get it to work is by (1) using a separate, clean Firefox profile (-no-remote -profile "x:\path\to\clean\profile"), (2) trying a different browser or (3) completely resetting Firefox (I manually backed up my main profile directory before doing this).
But: copy pasting the URL into a different profile or browser for every video is a pain in the arse and resetting Firefox is not an acceptable solution. I have a ton of customized extensions that would take hours to reconfigure. And, as I mentioned, safe mode (ie.: disabling the extensions) does not fix the problem.
Has anyone actually got to the root cause of this ridiculous error?

This had been happening to me too for ages and nothing made a difference... until I read a few lines on a forum somewhere that solved it in an instant...
YT started using Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (dash) a few years ago and this is what's causing the problems. You can download a script called Youtube Center that allows you to turn off dash : https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki
Or, as I found, you can simply plug in a set of headphones into your pc (or use a set of speakers) and that ever present and hugely annoying "an error occurred" message will be gone from your life forever.
;-)

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