diff --git a/src/renderer/components/ft-video-player/ft-video-player.js b/src/renderer/components/ft-video-player/ft-video-player.js
index 5c9c6992f..835a56077 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/ft-video-player/ft-video-player.js
+++ b/src/renderer/components/ft-video-player/ft-video-player.js
@@ -17,11 +17,17 @@ import { sponsorBlockSkipSegments } from '../../helpers/sponsorblock'
 import { calculateColorLuminance, colors } from '../../helpers/colors'
 import { pathExists } from '../../helpers/filesystem'
 import { getPicturesPath, showSaveDialog, showToast } from '../../helpers/utils'
+import { getProxyUrl } from '../../helpers/api/invidious'
+import store from '../../store'
 
 // YouTube now throttles if you use the `Range` header for the DASH formats, instead of the range query parameter
 // videojs-http-streaming calls this hook everytime it makes a request,
 // so we can use it to convert the Range header into the range query parameter for the streaming URLs
 videojs.Vhs.xhr.beforeRequest = (options) => {
+  if (store.getters.getProxyVideos) {
+    const { uri } = options
+    options.uri = getProxyUrl(uri)
+  }
   // pass in the optional base so it doesn't error for `dashFiles/videoId.xml` (DASH manifest in dev mode)
   if (new URL(options.uri, window.location.origin).hostname.endsWith('.googlevideo.com')) {
     // The official clients use POST requests with this body for the DASH requests, so we should do that too
@@ -34,7 +40,6 @@ videojs.Vhs.xhr.beforeRequest = (options) => {
     }
   }
 }
-
 // videojs-http-streaming spits out a warning every time you access videojs.Vhs.BANDWIDTH_VARIANCE
 // so we'll get the value once here, to stop it spamming the console
 // https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming/blob/main/src/config.js#L8-L10
@@ -304,6 +309,10 @@ export default defineComponent({
 
     screenshotFolder: function() {
       return this.$store.getters.getScreenshotFolderPath
+    },
+
+    proxyVideos: function () {
+      return this.$store.getters.getProxyVideos
     }
   },
   watch: {
@@ -1224,7 +1233,15 @@ export default defineComponent({
 
       this.useDash = false
       this.useHls = false
-      this.activeSourceList = this.sourceList
+      this.activeSourceList = (this.proxyVideos || !process.env.IS_ELECTRON)
+        // use map here to return slightly different list without modifying original
+        ? this.sourceList.map((source) => {
+          return {
+            ...source,
+            url: getProxyUrl(source.url)
+          }
+        })
+        : this.sourceList
 
       setTimeout(this.initializePlayer, 100)
     },
diff --git a/src/renderer/helpers/api/invidious.js b/src/renderer/helpers/api/invidious.js
index c9ff317ef..c2ca54dc6 100644
--- a/src/renderer/helpers/api/invidious.js
+++ b/src/renderer/helpers/api/invidious.js
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ function getCurrentInstance() {
   return store.getters.getCurrentInvidiousInstance
 }
 
+export function getProxyUrl(uri) {
+  const url = new URL(uri)
+  const { origin } = url
+  if (!url.searchParams.has('host') && origin !== getCurrentInstance()) {
+    // invidious requires host param to be filled with the origin of the stream
+    url.searchParams.append('host', origin.replace('https://', ''))
+  }
+  return url.toString().replace(origin, getCurrentInstance())
+}
+
 export function invidiousAPICall({ resource, id = '', params = {}, doLogError = true, subResource = '' }) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     const requestUrl = getCurrentInstance() + '/api/v1/' + resource + '/' + id + (!isNullOrEmpty(subResource) ? `/${subResource}` : '') + '?' + new URLSearchParams(params).toString()