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Makes videos act as incognito by removing cookies and reloading pages if they were navigated via the History API. This disables the anti-adblock feature.

This is a simple extension that:

• Removes the cookie headers for all https://*.youtube.com/watch?* links (requires webRequest and webRequestBlocking perms)
• Cancels all https://*.youtube.com/watch?*themeRefresh=1* requests (to prevent a bunch of refreshes when removing cookies)
• Refreshes page (requires tabs perm) on client-side redirect to a video (requires webNavigation perm) to mimic disabling the History.pushState API
• Checks if your browser prefers dark mode and enables it for video pages and, if so, enables it (since disabling cookies disables it for some reason)

Drawbacksː

• When the client-side redirect happens, you are still initially logged in and a request is sent to YouTube that you accessed the video.
• It signs you out, so you cannot watch age-restricted videos
• It signs you out, so you cannot like, subscribe, or comment

Tags: ad blocker content blocker youtube