From 4b020414c9dc14bc72a6d19db3714aa4d035f03e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89milien=20=28perso=29?=
 <4016501+unixfox@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 10:30:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update HTTP proxy configuration comments

Added information about proxy configuration for YouTube streams.
---
 config/config.example.yml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/config.example.yml b/config/config.example.yml
index eedd95396..5a28032b3 100644
--- a/config/config.example.yml
+++ b/config/config.example.yml
@@ -223,9 +223,12 @@ https_only: false
 
 ##
 ## Configuration for using a HTTP proxy
-##
 ## If unset, then no HTTP proxy will be used.
 ## 
+## This is not used for loading the video streams from YouTube servers (circumvent YouTube restrictions)
+## Please instead configure the proxy in Invidious companion:
+## https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-companion/blob/master/config/config.example.toml
+##
 #http_proxy:
 #  user:
 #  password: