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
    2020-07-15T00:58:06+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-21T11:12:06+00:00

    I fixed the problem by signing out of my youtube account, so everybody do that please, it worked for me and it will work for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-21T11:13:20+00:00

    Also do not sign back into your account or otherwise your youtube will be restricted again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-02T14:19:30+00:00

    I have the same problem, the Restricted Mode in my youtube settings was turned on and it's in grey color with no option to turn off. I reset my DNS to "automatically" then somehow the restricted mode was off. Before that I was using Google DNS 8.8.8.8.

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