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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
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--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -2466,7 +2466,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding
         # (e.g. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2448)
         # Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way
-        webpage = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(webpage)
+        # FIXME: unescaping the whole page may break URLs, commenting out for now.
+        # There probably should be a second run of generic extractor on unescaped webpage.
+        # webpage = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(webpage)
 
         # Unescape squarespace embeds to be detected by generic extractor,
         # see https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/21294