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YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try the Freetube or Grayjay client, they work for me with VPN.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I spun up my own invidious container and that has made my connection far more consistent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ay any tips?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.