Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but I AM the administrator. Help!

Anonymous
2018-04-24T15:11:11+00:00

Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but IAM the administrator. Help!

Hi all,

Here’s the nub of the problem: 

YouTube says: “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator.” but I AM the administrator of my own home pc. I'm totally mystified as to how this got activated in the first place and I can't find a way of undoing it. How do I switch this off?!?

I’m using Windows 7 and Google Chrome on a home computer. Any chance anyone could help me (and the no doubt countless others out there plagued with the same problem) out?

I’ve already trawled YouTube and Chrome forums on this and have drawn a dud at every turn. No help there. The problem is not a Family Safety issue, as I don’t have a family account. So you are quite possibly my last hope of resolving this.

I’ve even tried the regedit route (i.e. switching the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\ForceSafeSearch register key value to 0), but that, too, was a dead end because no such Google key or policy exists in the Policies folder on my pc.

I’m not a PC expert, so you may need to spell things out in fairly plain English for me.

Big, big thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-11-15T18:38:53+00:00

    How did you resolve this problem.  I have the same exact issues.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-12-25T22:07:55+00:00

    I have the same problem, on Google Chrome. I have narrowed the problem down to my new F-Secure extension "Browsing Protection by F-Secure".  I also found something here https://community.f-secure.com/t5/Speakers-Corner/Youtube-restricted-mode/td-p/115270

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-02T04:49:52+00:00

    I just ran into the same problem and did figure out the cause in my case.  I added an ad blocker IP address to my DNS settings.  It appears that YouTube app for IOS will turn on Restricted Mode and state that it has been turned on by your network administrator.

    The ad blocker I was using is 176.103.130.132.

    I hope this helps others.

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