winerror 10061 when trying to download videos from youtube

[amdcrash]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[01/29/20 16:35:14] [debug] System config: []
[01/29/20 16:35:14] [debug] User config: []
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] Custom config: []
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] Command-line args: ['--newline', '-i', '-o', 'C:\\Users\\Dylan\\%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'mp4', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', '--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcL800-C9Q']
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.24
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.2, ffprobe 3.3.2
[01/29/20 16:35:15] [debug] Proxy map: {'https': 'http://localhost:8888', 'http': 'http://localhost:8888'}
[01/29/20 16:35:15] ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> (caused by URLError(ConnectionRefusedError(10061, 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it', None, 10061, None),))
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpw0w300z1\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpw0w300z1\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpw0w300z1\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 2728, in https_open
[01/29/20 16:35:15]   File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open

Description

i am trying to download a youtube video but every time i do so, it displays the error:
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
it worked when downloading a different video a few day's ago and the error is confusing and i do not know what caused it nor what it worked.

i am using youtube-dl gui.

[dstftw]

Network issue on your side, most likely due to proxy.