[Go90] Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2018.06.25. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.06.25

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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$ youtube-dl -v  -f best 'https://www.go90.com/videos/261MflWkD3N'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v', '-f', 'best', 'https://www.go90.com/videos/261MflWkD3N']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.25
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.6, ffprobe 3.3.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Go90] 261MflWkD3N: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: 'Bad Request'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 598, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Used to (partially) work. No longer does in most recent youtube-dl version.