YouTube has started detecting when we automatically skip ads

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Might need to mix it up a bit

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Default view (non-Theater)

The "Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service" overlay is displayed here

The player is hidden by this rule:

The video itself is hidden by moving it off-screen using top:

If we…

1. Hide #error-screen when it contains ytd-enforcement-message-view-model
2. Make #movie_player visible
3. Move video back into view by setting top: 0 and click it

…the video will start playing.

While testing these steps manually, it took multiple clicks for the video to successfully play.

This is what's happening to the DOM when I click on the video 3 times with the following styles applied:

ytd-watch-flexy[player-unavailable] #error-screen:has(ytd-enforcement-message-view-model) {
  display: none;
}
ytd-watch-flexy[player-unavailable]:has(#error-screen ytd-enforcement-message-view-model) #player-container-outer.ytd-watch-flexy {
  visibility: visible;
}
ytd-watch-flexy[player-unavailable]:has(#error-screen ytd-enforcement-message-view-model) #movie_player video {
  top: 0 !important;
}

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9a79009e-fcbd-4519-8e0f-eede7e929fd7

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Theater mode

The player itself isn't hidden in theater mode, but the video is still positioned off-screen

Showing and clicking the video element still eventually forces it to play (took me 5 clicks on the first attempt)