YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?

  • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Depends in the VPN. I’m having to use multi-hop now with Freetube but with that turned on it is working consistently for me again.

        • deprecateddino@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          You can run it as a docker, pretty easily.

          Run this to generate your visitor_data and po_token

          docker run quay.io/invidious/youtube-trusted-session-generator

          Clone the repo in link below (step 2) and paste those values into your docker_compose.yml file in the appropriate fields. Also, generate a nice long string for the hmac_key

          https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production

          This does give you an “identity” with YouTube, but you can generate new tokens as often as you want, replace them in your yml, and restart the container.

          Once the container is running, update FreeTube settings abs change the “current invidious instanc” to http://localhost:3000/

          Let me know if you get stuck.