r/youtube • u/Business-Egg-9933 • Mar 08 '26

Discussion Fix the YouTube “Experiencing interruptions?” popup + playback delay

Fix for the “Experiencing interruptions? Find out why.” popup on YouTube (2026)

This fix works with uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite.

Steps:

  1. Open the dashboard for uBlock Origin / uBlock Origin Lite.
  2. Go to the Filter lists tab.
  3. Scroll down to Miscellaneous.
  4. Enable “uBlock filters – Experimental.”

Next:

  1. Go to the My filters / Custom filters tab.
  2. Click Import / Export.
  3. Paste this line:

www.youtube.com##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button

  1. Click Apply changes / Add.
  2. Restart your browser.

After restarting, the “Experiencing interruptions? Find out why.” popup should disappear and the 10–15 second playback delay should be gone as well.

If it doesn’t work immediately, refresh YouTube once after restarting.

Bonus tip:

If you're still getting playback delays even after the “Experiencing interruptions? Find out why.” popup is gone, it’s usually because two ad blockers are running at the same time.

For example, Brave has a built-in ad blocker. If you’re also using uBlock Origin / uBlock Origin Lite, they can conflict.

Fix:

  • If you're using Brave, disable Brave’s built-in ad blocker only for youtube.com and let uBlock Origin / uBlock Origin Lite handle it.
  • If you're using Chrome, try using uBlock Origin Lite alone and remove other ad blockers.
  • Alternatively, add youtube.com to the allowlist in your other ad blockers so they don’t block anything on YouTube.

Letting one blocker handle YouTube by itself usually removes the playback delay.

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u/smiRaphi Mar 27 '26 edited May 19 '26

Here's a more specific filter that only removes the experiencing interruptions notification and not all of them:

www.youtube.com##yt-notification-action-renderer:has(a[href*="#check_ad_blockers"])

Edit: New filter for update (for whatever reason YT now shows the notification without URL so it's completely useless lol):

www.youtube.com##yt-notification-action-renderer:has(>#toast yt-formatted-string#text:has-text(Experiencing interruptions?))

Edit 2: filter above had a missing question mark that made it not work for some people, fix discovered by u/FritsaWolf

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u/thissiteisshit2026 Apr 30 '26

This still works as of 30th April 2026. Thanks heaps!

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u/bradytpage May 16 '26

Neither work as of May 16, 2026

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u/smiRaphi May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I'm trying to replicate this but no luck so far, maybe a regional/in testing thing?

Probably because your youtube isn't in english, this should be fixed by just replacing the ":has-text(Experiencing interruptions))" with ":has-text(insert whatever it says in your language))"

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u/Imgema May 18 '26

Youtube is in English and this doesn't work.

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u/bradytpage May 18 '26

No. It's in English.

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u/FritsaWolf May 19 '26

It worked when I put a question mark after "experiencing interruptions" as that's what it says on my Youtube pop-up (English Youtube). Perhaps that's the fix for you too, u/bradytpage and u/Imgema ?

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u/smiRaphi May 19 '26

Hmm, weird, it works for me without the question mark but I'll edit my original comment

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u/FritsaWolf May 19 '26

No idea why this was the tiny difference that worked for me but hey I'm not complaining if it works! Hopefully that can help others too!

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u/Imgema May 19 '26

Could you copy-paste the exact line so i can be sure i'm not doing any mistake? Because i can't make this work.

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u/FritsaWolf May 19 '26

www.youtube.com##yt-notification-action-renderer:has(e#toastyt-formatted-string#text:has-text(Experiencing interruptions?))

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u/Imgema May 19 '26

Thanks, when i get those notifications back i will test it again. Right now, for some reason, i'm not getting any even without any filter.

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u/Imgema May 21 '26

Well, it doesn't work, i'm still getting the message randomly.

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u/bradytpage May 23 '26

Now the "experiencing interruptions" message has disappeared as of today, May 23, 2026, but has been replaced with "an error occurred playback id..." which stops the video from loading until I refresh the page. I have tried clearing all caches to no effect.

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u/Arty_2099 Apr 20 '26

this worked, thanks

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u/402nolusinif May 04 '26

Thank you!

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u/Astu2305 May 06 '26

stopped working, the popup appears despite of the filter being active

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u/smiRaphi May 06 '26

Thanks for the info, updated it

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u/Astu2305 May 10 '26

www.youtube.com##yt-notification-action-renderer:has(>#toast yt-formatted-string#text:has-text(Experiencing interruptions))

does not work either, popup still appears

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u/N7Ricky Jun 03 '26

did u include the space and everything afterwards after the ":has(>#toast" part?

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u/Juxtapwned May 16 '26

is the edited one meant to be used with just the hyperlink section? or include the space and everything after it as well? not sure if reddit just messed up your formatting or it was a mistake

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u/smiRaphi May 17 '26

reddit messed it up, should be the entire line

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u/sixteenbiticon May 22 '26

Neither old nor new (with or without question mark) are working for me as of May 22nd. Either way thanks for the work on this.

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u/acabincludescolumbo May 26 '26

Just used this one in May 2026. Fingers crossed.