Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

[Zera1k]

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[tianon]

This is very likely a duplicate of #23516 / #23558 (although not being able to even do the minimum included in the error message and include the full output with --verbose makes it a bit hard to tell 😉).

Likely already fixed via d1b2722, although that doesn't appear to be in a released build yet.