How to Fix “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”

4 Ways To Fix “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”

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How to Fix “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”

Do you find it annoying when your ad blocker stops you from watching videos on YouTube?

YouTube has implemented new features to make sure that users have an ad experience while watching videos on YouTube.

Hence users are getting a new alert message that is as follows:

“Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.

Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled”.

Ads allow YouTube to be used billions worldwide.

You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium, and creators can still get paid from your subscription.”

But you don’t have to worry about it. In this article, you will learn how to fix “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms or Service” error message.

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How To Fix Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service

To fix “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”, you have to do the following:

  • Allow YouTube Ads by disabling Ad blocker extensions/apps on your device for YouTube.
  • Subscribe to YouTube Premium service.
  • Connect to VPN.
  • Try uBlock Origin Extension.

Way 1: Allow Ads on YouTube

This is a very easy and simple solution to fix and get rid of Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service error.

Hence, disable ad blockers on your web browsers, whether you are using Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Safari, Opera or any other web browser.

And thereby you easily bypass Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube and watch videos without any issue.

Way 2: Try YouTube Premium Service

If you do not want to see Ads then you can subscribe to YouTube Premium and watch videos on YouTube without Ads and without violating the platform’s terms of service.

Way 3: Connect To a VPN

You can use any reputed VPN service and connect to it.

You can connect to a region or country where this alert message is not showing such as India, Russia or Israel.

Now, open YouTube and watch videos.

Your Ad Blocker should work. Also, you will not see the platform’s terms of use violating alerts.

Note: You have to connect to the countries/regions where this error is not showing or else connecting VPN will not work.

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Way 4: Try uBlock Origin Extension

It is a browser extension that allows users to watch videos on YouTube without ads as well as does not violate YouTube’s terms of service.

  • Remove all existing Ad blocker extensions from your web browser.
  • Add uBlock Origin extension for Chrome or Firefox.

After adding the extension, watch some videos on YouTube and see if the error is gone or not.

If the error is gone then continue watching the videos.

  • If the error is not gone, then click on “Puzzle” icon on Chrome browser.
  • Select “uBlock Origin” and click on Settings icon.
  • Go to “My Filters” tab and then copy and paste the following code:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

  • Click on “Apply Changes” to save the code.

Now, head back to YouTube and start watching videos. I hope you will bypass Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service and watch videos without Ads.

Wrap Up

I hope after applying the given fixes, you were able to fix and get rid of “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”.

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