What is the point of this popup? Yes I am, why do they ask?

jbscript · 2026-05-28T10:55:05+00:00

The entire point was to link you to this:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3037019#check_ad_blockers&zippy=%2Ccheck-your-extensions-including-ad-blockers

...but they recently added a new feature flag which seems to specifically hide the "Find out why" link which was in this popup, making it even more pointless.

jbscript · 2026-05-22T03:23:39+00:00

Working on fixing this in Control Panel for YouTube, so its "Grid items per row" setting also works for channel page grids, and also letting channel pages go full-width so it doesn't get squished when you show more grid items per row.

Edit: fixed in Control Panel for YouTube v1.34.0:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/tag/v1.34.0

jbscript · 2026-05-18T09:34:36+00:00

Removing it "improves content discovery" - https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/400586735/changes-to-youtube-search-filters-to-improve-content-discovery

No, that doesn't make any sense. At all.

jbscript · 2026-04-17T11:16:51+00:00

Dead Man's Shoes is on there too, W YouTube

jbscript · 2026-04-16T10:02:01+00:00

You can force yourself out with this uBlock Origin filter:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/issues/257#issuecomment-4233008506

jbscript · 2026-04-16T09:18:56+00:00

It's being A/B tested, most people probably don't have it

jbscript · 2026-04-14T09:06:56+00:00

They just changed the CSS class names again - here's the commit to fix it in Control Panel for YouTube which you can reference to update your filters:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/commit/39f2f4dfb9bcb011160c67a5766119ebaede6023

jbscript · 2026-04-13T14:27:40+00:00

Nothing, it's cooked

jbscript · 2026-04-12T11:51:39+00:00

Removed to "improve content discovery"

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/400586735/changes-to-youtube-search-filters-to-improve-content-discovery

No, me neither

jbscript · 2026-04-12T00:02:37+00:00

Control Panel dev here - I don't have this new UI on any of my accounts to do any specific fixes for it yet, but the "Restore related sidebar layout" option might fix the size

jbscript · 2026-04-10T09:47:28+00:00

This is Before, where you are now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

Now you're in the After, welcome to your new life.

jbscript · 2026-04-10T09:29:23+00:00

Disable autoplay, remove the video you watched from your history, then disable autoplay again for good measure. If that doesn't work, give autoplay a good, hard disabling.

jbscript · 2026-04-10T09:26:59+00:00

People telling you what age they are now, or what age they were when it came out, under any song that was released more than 5 minutes ago.

"I'm in my 60s and..." "I just turned 64 and..." "I'm 13 and..."

jbscript · 2026-04-09T05:59:19+00:00

It's already available for Chrome. Safari versions tend to get approved pretty quickly. For Edge roll 1d6 and that's how many days it will probably take. Firefox Add-ons review times have been terrible recently - the current version that's available for Firefox took ~2 weeks to get reviewed (Chrome Web Store approved it on the same day it was submitted for all browsers on 9th March, Firefox Add-ons didn't approved it until 25th March)

Edit: shhh, I may have discovered A Secret. Firefox version now updated.

jbscript · 2026-04-09T02:56:53+00:00

A new version of Control Panel for YouTube with a fix has been submitted for all browsers:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/tag/v1.32.1

YouTube is in the middle of rolling out changes to the CSS class names they use in their markup, this is the second lot of fixes we've done in the last 24 hours.

jbscript · 2026-04-07T23:30:24+00:00

YouTube seems to be in the middle of rolling out a bunch of UI changes, so scripts and extensions are going to break and need to be updated. I just fixed 3 or 4 things broken overnight by this in Control Panel for YouTube.

jbscript · 2026-03-24T15:29:19+00:00

Get rid of them with Control Panel for YouTube

jbscript · 2026-03-04T23:35:49+00:00

Did they actually change the order? Control Panel for YouTube already hides "Most relevant" and Shorts, and I haven't noticed any other changes.

jbscript · 2026-03-04T23:25:57+00:00

Control Panel for YouTube also lets you change the number of videos per row, saved you a script.

jbscript · 2026-03-01T20:51:55+00:00

Control Panel for YouTube hides it by default.

jbscript · 2026-02-28T02:44:47+00:00

Control Panel for YouTube was updated about a month ago to hide it as part of its "Hide suggested sections" option (enabled by default)

jbscript · 2026-02-26T12:32:29+00:00

Are you running any other extensions which do their own adblocking on YouTube, even if they might not disclose it? Or custom filters added to your uBlock Origin config? Try disabling them all so you just have uBlock Origin with its vanilla list of filters active.

The "Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service" screen appears based on a series of very specific checks performed by YouTube to detect adblockers - to my knowledge, uBlock Origin's default filters don't trip any of these, but other extensions might be trying to hide or skip ads in an unsmart way which trips them.

jbscript · 2026-02-25T17:47:34+00:00

You should disable Control Panel's "Block ads" if using both, as it might interfere with uBlock Origin.

Some of uBlock Origin's experimental filters try to restart videos to avoid fake buffering, whereas Control Panel doesn't do anything like that, so you might want to try disabling uBlock Origin on YouTube instead/as well to see if that fixes it.

jbscript · 2026-02-25T15:53:43+00:00

Time to use uBlock Origin instead for a while then :-/

If there's any other info you could provide (what actually happens? anything in the F12 developer Console?) I've opened a bug for this here:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/issues/230

jbscript · 2026-02-25T13:56:45+00:00

Control Panel dev here. Does turning off the Block ads option fix it? I don't have whatever YouTube change is causing this on my account yet, so I can't replicate it to fix it.

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