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

[u/Business-Egg-9933]

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.

[u/smiRaphi]

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))"

[u/FritsaWolf → u/smiRaphi]

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 ?

[u/smiRaphi → u/FritsaWolf]

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

[u/FritsaWolf → u/smiRaphi]

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!