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A login YouTube no longer accepts is now recognised and explained. When the cookies the app
reads from your browser have been rotated or signed out, YouTube still answers, as for a
signed-out visitor: lists came back empty (so subscriptions, playlists or history seemed to
vanish) and Like, Save and the like failed with a bare "YouTube refused (401)". Now those
requests fail with "YouTube no longer accepts your saved login. Open youtube.com in your browser
(log in again if it asks), then press Try again in Settings → Account", the Settings page shows
the failed step, and yt-dlp's "cookies are no longer
valid" gets the same message. Public pages (videos, channels, search) are unaffected.
A running app tries what restarting did. The cookies were read once at start and kept for
the whole run, so once YouTube rotated them the lists and Like kept using dead ones until you
restarted. When YouTube now refuses the login, the app re-reads the browser's cookies itself,
once, for the lists and the actions alike (before, only cookies kept from an earlier start
were re-read, and Like refreshed only its own copy).