diff --git a/api/captions.js b/api/captions.js
index 859ced4..29611ef 100644
--- a/api/captions.js
+++ b/api/captions.js
@@ -1,13 +1,25 @@
+const fetch = require("node-fetch")
 const {getUser} = require("../utils/getuser")
 const constants = require("../utils/constants.js")
-const {proxy} = require("pinski/plugins")
 
 module.exports = [
 	{
 		route: `/api/v1/captions/(${constants.regex.video_id})`, methods: ["GET"], code: async ({req, fill, url}) => {
 			const instanceOrigin = getUser(req).getSettingsOrDefaults().instance
 			const fetchURL = new URL(`${url.pathname}${url.search}`, instanceOrigin)
-			return proxy(fetchURL.toString())
+			return fetch(fetchURL.toString()).then(res => {
+				return res.text().then(text => {
+					if (res.status === 200) {
+						// Remove the position annotations that youtube unhelpfully provides
+						text = text.replace(/(--> \S+).*/g, "$1")
+					}
+					return {
+						statusCode: res.status,
+						contentType: res.headers.get("content-type"),
+						content: text
+					}
+				})
+			})
 		}
 	}
 ]