diff --git a/src/lib/helpers/youtubePlayerHandling.ts b/src/lib/helpers/youtubePlayerHandling.ts
index fccc268..7b09e5b 100644
--- a/src/lib/helpers/youtubePlayerHandling.ts
+++ b/src/lib/helpers/youtubePlayerHandling.ts
@@ -54,11 +54,6 @@ export const youtubePlayerParsing = async (
 
         const streamingData = video.streaming_data;
 
-        // WORKAROUND the issue with TV client not returning any short description
-        if (!videoData.videoDetails.shortDescription) {
-            videoData.videoDetails.shortDescription = "";
-        }
-
         // Modify the original YouTube response to include deciphered URLs
         if (streamingData && videoData && videoData.streamingData) {
             const ecatcherServiceTracking = videoData.responseContext
@@ -86,6 +81,11 @@ export const youtubePlayerParsing = async (
                         delete videoData.streamingData.formats[index]
                             .signatureCipher;
                     }
+                    if (videoData.streamingData.formats[index].url.includes("alr=yes")) {
+                        videoData.streamingData.formats[index].url.replace("alr=yes", "alr=no");
+                    } else {
+                        videoData.streamingData.formats[index].url += "&alr=no";
+                    }
                 }
                 for (
                     const [index, adaptive_format] of streamingData
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ export const youtubePlayerParsing = async (
                         delete videoData.streamingData.adaptiveFormats[index]
                             .signatureCipher;
                     }
+                    if (videoData.streamingData.adaptiveFormats[index].url.includes("alr=yes")) {
+                        videoData.streamingData.adaptiveFormats[index].url.replace("alr=yes", "alr=no");
+                    } else {
+                        videoData.streamingData.adaptiveFormats[index].url += "&alr=no";
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/routes/health.ts b/src/routes/health.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..517a991
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/routes/health.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { Hono } from "hono";
+
+const health = new Hono();
+
+health.get("/", () => {
+  return new Response("OK", {
+	status: 200,
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain" },
+  });
+});
+
+export default health;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/routes/index.ts b/src/routes/index.ts
index bfc02d4..b8cde29 100644
--- a/src/routes/index.ts
+++ b/src/routes/index.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ export const videoRestricted = new Counter({
 	help: 'TODO',
 	registers: [register]
   });
+import health from "./health.ts";
 
 export const routes = (app: Hono, konfigStore: Store<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
   app.use("*", logger());
@@ -70,4 +71,5 @@ export const routes = (app: Hono, konfigStore: Store<Record<string, unknown>>) =
   app.route("/api/manifest/dash/id", invidiousRouteDashManifest);
   app.route("/videoplayback", videoPlaybackProxy);
   app.route("/metrics", metrics)
+  app.route("/healthz", health);
 };
diff --git a/src/routes/videoPlaybackProxy.ts b/src/routes/videoPlaybackProxy.ts
index 9f52a87..ab84622 100644
--- a/src/routes/videoPlaybackProxy.ts
+++ b/src/routes/videoPlaybackProxy.ts
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ videoPlaybackProxy.get("/", async (c) => {
     // deno-lint-ignore prefer-const
     let queryParams = new URLSearchParams(urlReq.search);
     queryParams.delete("host");
-    // alr parameter is only for WEB/HTML5 clients
-    if (client.includes("WEB")) {
-        queryParams.append("alr", "yes");
-    }
     if (rangeHeader) {
         queryParams.append(
             "range",