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
    2018-08-10T03:38:28+00:00

    i had it too today.. for me, I just need to update it to the latest update and relaunched it.

    the problems gone, but it came back again. and then I opened a new youtube tab and it went normal again. I think it might be just internal server error because i got this too.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T05:39:01+00:00

    Yeah I figured that might be the case. But I already tried turning my router off and on again and that didn't work, called my internet provider and they have no idea what it is, tried to reset everything back to default and the issue still happens. I have no idea what to do now.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T05:46:49+00:00

    it is happened to me also just today. it is started with my phone first,and then my PC got restricted also... anyone here can help us, thanks in advance ...

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T06:39:29+00:00

    Sign into Youtube.

    Click your icon at top right corner.

    See picture below---

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T07:08:04+00:00

    I have the same Issue on my macbook pro google chrome browser , start on July 6th

    it says Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator.

    Does anybody already fix this problem?

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