How to stop YouTube from asking me to sign in

[mrochester]

Does anyone know how to stop this annoying prompt? It comes up any time I happen to navigate to YouTube.

 

[mrochester]

Sign in.

I’m not interested in doing that. I want to a) not sign in and b) stop it from asking me to sign in.

 

[mrochester]

I tried blocking it via uBlock O but to no avail. I've just been hitting "nope" every time instead like you've been doing.

The trouble I’ve found with hitting ‘nope’ each time is that the video then fails to play (with some obscure error message). I then have to force close the browser and open again at which point I can play the video.

It’s like it’s been designed to be as difficult as possible to use.

 

[mrochester]

It's been designed to make it very easy to use actually.

Once you signed in, it stops asking you, a VERY simple solution, much quicker than the time you spent on this thread.

I know you want your privacy, but use a fake email address. It's quite simple.

That feels like I’d be capitulating to how they want me to do things instead of being able to do things my way.

I’ll just continue pressing ‘nope’ and try and get any content elsewhere instead.

 

[mrochester]

It sounds like you are making a mountain out of a molehill. Just use a fake email address, I know you have one of those for spam.

It’s fine, if there’s no easy way to get rid of the annoying ‘sign in’ box other than doing what they want me to do, I’m quite happy to continue pressing the ‘nope’ option when it asks me. Unless of course someone has a way of blocking that prompt from appearing in the first place, which apparently there isn’t yet.

 

[mrochester]

I am curious of what freaky videos you watch to not even let them track a fake email address. lol

No freaky videos, I just don’t want to be forced to sign in. So I’m not going to.

 

[mrochester]

And the award for petulant child of the year goes to...

I’m sorry you think that making a stand against companies forcing certain undesirable behaviours is ‘petulant’. I’d prefer to send the message that it’s not cool to force people to sign in or pester them over and over.

Its the same reason I jump through hoops to create a local account when reinstalling windows 10.

 

[mrochester]

Create an email address you will never use to sign in ?

Nope not doing that.

It’s fine I’ll just keep dismissing the prompt until someone comes up with a way to block it entirely.

 

[mrochester]

They design these things to make you sign in. You know that already. Even if you find a way around it they'd find a way around that etc. Losing battle.

I’ll keep fighting the good fight

 

[mrochester]

You are picking the wrong fight. You can win by just giving them a fake email address.

That's a smart win. Wasting your time, both starting a thread, and to click that button for eternity is a lost.

I disagree.

 

[mrochester]

It's their product. If they want to make you stand on your head before using it that's the price you pay.

Of course they can, just no one would do it. Making me sign is is my ‘won’t do it’ so I either need a workaround or I’ll go somewhere else that doesn’t do that.

 

[mrochester]

What do you think they would do?

1 - They have no idea you click no.
2 - They have no idea you are frustrated.
3 - They actually want you to be frustrated so you click Sign In.
4 - They are now exactly where they want you.
5 - You keep clicking No.
6 - They have no idea.
7 - You are still frustrated
8 - You are still wasting your time
9 - They don't know and they don't care
10 - You keep wasting your time thinking you are "winning"

Insanity is when doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

Calm down, I’ll just wait until there’s something that’ll block it, it’s fine!

 

[mrochester]

We all know you don't like Google, so you can either live with it, or go off to Vimeo, ******** or dailymotion for you.

I will, or hopefully just block the prompt entirely. I’ll do some more digging.

 

[mrochester]

I don't get this, i just click "no thanks" and play the video without issue.

Hmmm, odd.

 

[mrochester]

Has anyone suggested that the best way to stop YouTube asking you to sign in, is to actually sign in?

Oh wait, everyone (including me).

Sign in. I guarantee it'll never ask you to sign in again.

/thread

Thanks for the obvious answer that I totally hadn’t thought of myself!

At least some people have been slightly more helpful. I will try some of the suggested adblocker scripts and settings.

 

[mrochester]

He is against the pop up more than anything...apparently it’s sticking it up to the man or something if he clicks No.

It’s just bad design. You shouldn’t need to dismiss these prompts over and over.

 

[mrochester]

Bingo, this has worked for me. I've added the additional annoyances filters and I don't get prompted anymore.

I thought I’d turned on all annoyance filters but I’ll check again.

This is on safari too though.

 

[mrochester]

I've got a solution for you OP that no-one has mentioned yet...

Don't use it! Find another platform to watch whatever it is you're watching.

That’s also an option. Better to just block the damn pop up though!

 

[mrochester]

One of the best features of YouTube is that you subscribe to content that you enjoy, content creators that you like to watch. So when you SIGN IN, they are at the forefront of the app/web page, and then you don't get a bunch of crap that you have no interest in. It saves time searching, it saves time scrolling.

Who has time to click no, then search for it every time?

Create a single fake email address call [email protected] just for this if you had to, it saves so much more time than clicking no and searching for things every single time.

I’m not interested in subscribing to content or content creators. I’m also not interested in being ‘recommended’ content, that’s precisely why I don’t want to sign in.

 

[mrochester]

This sentence is still valid.

Create a single fake email address call [email protected] just for this if you had to, it saves so much more time than clicking no and searching for things every single time.

It’s fine, I’ll just try and find a way to block the pop up entirely. I’m not interested in being forced to do things a certain way.