diff --git a/src/invidious/routes/video_playback.cr b/src/invidious/routes/video_playback.cr
index 980ca976..d301d2e5 100644
--- a/src/invidious/routes/video_playback.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/routes/video_playback.cr
@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ module Invidious::Routes::VideoPlayback
       headers["Range"] = "bytes=#{range_for_head}"
     end
 
-    headers["Origin"] = "https://www.youtube.com"
-    headers["Referer"] = "https://www.youtube.com/"
-    headers["User-Agent"] = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
-
-    client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve = true)
+    client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve: true)
     response = HTTP::Client::Response.new(500)
     error = ""
     5.times do
@@ -66,7 +62,7 @@ module Invidious::Routes::VideoPlayback
           if new_host != host
             host = new_host
             client.close
-            client = make_client(URI.parse(new_host), region, force_resolve = true)
+            client = make_client(URI.parse(new_host), region, force_resolve: true)
           end
 
           url = "#{location.request_target}&host=#{location.host}#{region ? "&region=#{region}" : ""}"
@@ -80,7 +76,7 @@ module Invidious::Routes::VideoPlayback
         fvip = "3"
 
         host = "https://r#{fvip}---#{mn}.googlevideo.com"
-        client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve = true)
+        client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve: true)
       rescue ex
         error = ex.message
       end
@@ -205,7 +201,7 @@ module Invidious::Routes::VideoPlayback
             break
           else
             client.close
-            client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve = true)
+            client = make_client(URI.parse(host), region, force_resolve: true)
           end
         end
 
diff --git a/src/invidious/yt_backend/connection_pool.cr b/src/invidious/yt_backend/connection_pool.cr
index c7c4c675..8fcfc3eb 100644
--- a/src/invidious/yt_backend/connection_pool.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/yt_backend/connection_pool.cr
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def make_client(url : URI, region = nil, force_resolve : Bool = false)
   return client
 end
 
-def make_client(url : URI, region = nil, force_resolve : Bool = false, &)
-  client = make_client(url, region, force_resolve)
+def make_client(url : URI, region = nil, force_resolve : Bool = false, &block)
+  client = make_client(url, region, force_resolve: force_resolve)
   begin
     yield client
   ensure