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hello

I'm having a problem where whenever I have optifine installed in my minecraft version, it won't launch.

here's the crash report I'm having

[08:40:59 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\[insert my name here]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\optifine\OptiFine\1.8_HD_U_D1\OptiFine-1.8_HD_U_D1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 5)
[08:41:00 WARN]: Couldn't download https://libraries.minecraft.net/optifine/OptiFine/1.8_HD_U_D1/OptiFine-1.8_HD_U_D1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'
java.lang.RuntimeException: Server responded with 403
at com.mojang.launcher.updater.download.ChecksummedDownloadable.download(ChecksummedDownloadable.java:97) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.51]
at com.mojang.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:109) [launcher.jar:1.6.51]
at com.mojang.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:12) [launcher.jar:1.6.51]
at com.mojang.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:86) [launcher.jar:1.6.51]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_51]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_51]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_51]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_51]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_51]
[08:41:00 ERROR]: Gave up trying to download https://libraries.minecraft.net/optifine/OptiFine/1.8_HD_U_D1/OptiFine-1.8_HD_U_D1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'

the server 403's. am I the only one having this issue? how can I fix it?