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

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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.