[youtube:tab] Detect looping feeds #6621
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Fixes #5555
YouTube is rolling out a change where they loop (channel?) feeds at the end. Fortunately the continuations appear to be identical, so we can detect when it loops using those.
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Fix infinite loop bug in YouTube feed extraction. Use a set to track seen continuation tokens in
yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
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