How to unban yourself on Ome.tv

What a ban is actually attached to

Three things, strongest first. A ban normally rides on all three at once, which is exactly why changing one of them looks like it did nothing.

First, work out which ban you have

Ome.tv does not publish its policy, so these four cases are what the pattern looks like from outside. Two minutes here can save you the entire rest of the page, because one of them clears itself.

What does not work on its own

Each of these changes at most one of the three signals, and none of them changes the strongest one.

Before you start

None of this is hard, but half-doing it produces exactly the same result as not doing it.

1. 1

   Set aside 20 to 30 minutes and finish in one sitting

   The steps depend on each other and the order matters.

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   Stopping halfway usually means launching the browser before its updates are frozen, which undoes the part you already did.

2. 2

   You need administrator rights on the computer

   On a work or school machine where you are not an administrator, only Path A in Step 2 is available to you.

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   Freezing updates means touching Windows services, scheduled tasks and machine-wide policy, and none of those can be changed from a standard account.

3. 3

   Have the replacement sign-in account ready first

   Make it on a device you are already signed in on, before you touch the browser you are cleaning out.

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   The full write-up, including how to get through sign-up without a phone number, is how to make a fresh Google account for Ome.tv.

4. 4

   Write down what you were banned on

   Which browser, which account, and which version. The number is on chrome://version or your browser's equivalent.

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   Also edge://version, brave://version, vivaldi://about, opera://about. The goal of the next twenty minutes is to end up somewhere that is not that, and you cannot confirm you moved if you never recorded where you started.

Step 1. Clear out the browser you were banned in

Moving to a different browser instead? You can skip the uninstall and simply never open Ome.tv in the old one again. Do the first and last steps either way, because those two reach across into your new profile.

1. 1

   Turn browser sync off before anything else

   Sign out of the browser, or turn sync off, on every device that shares the account. This is the step that saves the other twenty.

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   Sync exists to carry cookies, extensions, history and site data into whatever profile you sign into next, so it will faithfully rebuild the profile you are trying to leave behind.

2. 2

   Quit the browser completely, not just the window

   Open Task Manager and end any remaining process named after your browser.

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   Closing the last window is not quitting. These browsers keep running in the background by default, and an uninstall that runs while the browser is alive silently leaves files behind.

3. 3

   Uninstall it with the data box ticked

   Windows Settings → Apps → Installed apps, find the browser, choose Uninstall, and tick Also delete your browsing data.

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   Left unticked, the uninstall deliberately keeps your profile so that reinstalling picks it straight back up, which here is the exact opposite of what you want.

4. 4

   Delete the profile folder that survived anyway

   Press Win+R, paste your browser's profile path, and delete the folder it opens.

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   Chrome: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data. Edge: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data. Brave: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data. Vivaldi: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Vivaldi\User Data. Opera: %APPDATA%\Opera Software\Opera Stable. This is where a site's stored data lives, and that is what a cookie clear most often misses.

5. 5

   Do not keep a copy to restore later

   Export your bookmarks to a file if you need them, and take only that.

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   Backing the whole folder up and putting it back once everything works restores the identifiers along with your bookmarks, which puts the ban back too.

Step 2, Path A. Move to a browser you have never used on Ome.tv

The path we recommend to almost everyone: quicker, no administrator rights needed, and it leaves your daily browser exactly as it is. Take Path B instead only if you have already worked through every browser, or you have a hard reason to stay on the one you are on.

1. 1

   Pick a browser from a different maker

   Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera all work. The one rule: it must be one you have never opened Ome.tv in.

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   A different maker means a different build, a different identity string and a different set of defaults, which together is enough to move the fingerprint.

2. 2

   Install it without importing anything

   Every installer offers to bring your bookmarks, passwords, history and settings across on first run. Decline all of it.

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   The word settings quietly includes cookies and site data, which is precisely the half of the problem you just deleted.

3. 3

   Do not sign the browser itself into anything

   Leave it signed out entirely. The Ome.tv login in Step 4 is separate and happens inside the website.

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   Signing the new browser into a Google or Microsoft account turns sync on, and sync re-imports the profile you were banned with.

4. 4

   On Brave only, turn fingerprint blocking off

   Go to Shields → Block fingerprinting → Disabled.

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   Brave scrambles the exact browser details our overlay reads, and reshuffles them per site and per session, so with it on the script cannot prove it is running on the device it was built for.

5. 5

   Consider freezing its updates as well

   Optional here, required on Path B. Step 3 has the method.

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   Skipping it breaks nothing today. It just means your fingerprint keeps drifting on somebody else's release schedule, and that if you are ever banned again you start from a moving target.

6. 6

   Load Ome.tv and stop before signing in

   Open the site logged out. Ban screen already gone? The fingerprint work landed, go to Step 4.

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   If it is still there while you are signed into nothing, the ban is on your fingerprint or your IP, so carry on to Path B or Step 5.

Step 2, Path B. Reinstall the same browser on an older version

This works because the browser version is itself part of the fingerprint. It has one hard requirement: if the browser updates itself back, so does the fingerprint. Do not launch anything until Step 3 is done.

1. 1

   Find the official archive for your browser

   Vivaldi, Opera, Brave and Edge all publish older builds. Chrome does not, so on Chrome take Path A instead.

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   Vivaldi: vivaldi.com/download/archive. Opera: get.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop. Brave: its GitHub releases page. Edge: the Edge for Business download page. Google ships the current Chrome version and nothing else, and a random mirror is not worth trusting with an installer that runs as administrator.

2. 2

   Choose how far back to go

   Three or four major versions, roughly three to four months of releases. Do not go back years.

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   Old builds handle video and camera permissions differently enough that Ome.tv itself starts misbehaving, and the further back you go the more likely our overlay simply refuses to run.

3. 3

   Download it and leave the installer alone

   Finish the download, then read Step 3 before you double-click anything.

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   These browsers run an update check within seconds of first launch and install what they find without asking, so a fresh old build is current again before you have opened a single tab.

4. 4

   Install it, and take the standalone option if offered

   Vivaldi calls it Standalone, others call it portable. Take it where you can.

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   It keeps everything inside one folder, does not touch your existing installation, and is far easier to keep frozen because no machine-wide updater is attached to it.

5. 5

   Now do Step 3, before the first launch

   Freeze the automatic updates first, then come back here. This ordering is the whole reason Path B fails for most people who try it alone.

6. 6

   Launch it and record the version number

   Check chrome://version or your browser's equivalent and write the number down. Do not use the About page in Settings.

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   On every one of these browsers, opening the About page starts an update check and installs whatever it finds, so the act of confirming your version is what changes it. The version pages listed here only report.

7. 7

   Use the old build for Ome.tv and nothing else

   Keep your email, banking and shopping on a current browser, and let the frozen one do exactly one job.

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   An out-of-date browser is missing security patches by definition, and that is a real cost rather than a formality.

Step 3. Freeze automatic updates

The step that decides whether your unban lasts a month or a weekend. These browsers update themselves in the background with no prompt and no visible sign, and an update puts you back on the same version as everybody else, which for you is the version the ban was recorded against.

1. 1

   Do this before the browser has ever been launched

   The first launch is itself an update check.

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   If you have already launched it, that is recoverable: finish the three layers below, re-check the version page, and reinstall the old build if the number moved.

2. 2

   Layer 1. Disable the updater's scheduled tasks

   Press Win+R, run taskschd.msc, open Task Scheduler Library, then right-click your browser's update tasks and choose Disable.

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   The task names, per browser. Chrome: GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore and GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA, or names starting GoogleUpdater on newer installs. Edge: MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachineCore and the matching UA one. Brave: BraveSoftwareUpdateTaskMachineCore and its UA twin. Opera: Opera scheduled Autoupdate. Vivaldi: Vivaldi Update Notifier. Disable rather than delete, because installers recreate deleted tasks.

3. 3

   Layer 2. Stop and disable the updater services

   Press Win+R, run services.msc, and for each of your browser's entries set Startup type to Disabled, then press Stop.

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   Which entries. Chrome: Google Update Service, both of them. Edge: Microsoft Edge Update Service, both of them. Brave: both entries whose names begin with Brave. Opera and Vivaldi install no service at all, so for those two the scheduled task in Layer 1 is the entire mechanism.

4. 4

   Layer 3. Set the update policy in the registry

   Run regedit as administrator and add a DWORD (32-bit) value named UpdateDefault, set to 0, in your browser's policy key.

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   This is the layer that survives the updater reinstalling itself, which is what makes it worth two more minutes. Create the key if it does not exist. Chrome: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update. Edge: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate. Brave: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\BraveSoftware\Update. Add a second DWORD in the same key, AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes, set to 0. Setting UpdateDefault back to 1 is how you undo all of this later.

5. 5

   Vivaldi and Opera also have an in-app setting

   Open the browser's settings, search for update, and turn the automatic check off there as well.

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   Do this in addition to the scheduled task, not instead of it. The in-app toggle governs the browser and the task governs the updater, and they are two different programs.

6. 6

   Verify the freeze actually held

   Reboot, use the machine normally for a day, then re-open chrome://version and compare against the number you wrote down.

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   Identical means it is frozen. A changed number means one layer was missed, nine times out of ten a scheduled task sitting under a name you did not recognise.

Step 4. Sign in with a genuinely new account

Everything in Steps 1 to 3 is wasted the moment you hand back the account the ban was recorded against.

1. 1

   Make the account before you open Ome.tv

   A plain @gmail.com address is the right choice. Full walkthrough: how to make a fresh Google account for Ome.tv.

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   It is the most ordinary address on the internet and says nothing about you. Disposable and ten-minute-mail domains sit in public lists that any site can check in a single lookup.

2. 2

   Do not reuse your phone number or recovery email

   Use a recovery email you control instead, and add it straight away.

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   Attaching the number that is already on your old account links the two on the provider's side, which is the one link you were trying not to create. Without a number, the recovery email is your only route back in if you lose the password.

3. 3

   Switch provider entirely if you can

   Signed in with Facebook before? A Google account is a cleaner break than a second Facebook account.

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   A second account at the same provider still shares a device history, a recovery chain and often an address with the first.

4. 4

   Sign into Ome.tv, not into the browser

   Use the new account on Ome.tv's own login prompt only.

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   Signing it into the browser turns sync on and starts rebuilding exactly the profile you spent Step 1 removing.

Step 5. Change your IP, only if you still need to

Last, and only if Steps 1 to 4 did not clear it. The IP is the weakest of the three signals and the most disruptive to change: it moves which country you appear to be in, which changes who you are matched with and in which language they open.

1. 1

   Restart your router properly

   Leave it powered off for ten to fifteen minutes, not ten seconds.

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   Most home connections get a new address on a restart, but many providers hold the old one long enough to hand it straight back if you are quick. On some mobile and fibre lines the address a site sees may not change at all.

2. 2

   Use your phone as a hotspot to test it

   The fastest way to find out whether the ban is address-based at all. Works over the hotspot but not at home? Then you have your answer.

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   A hotspot puts you on a completely different network on a different provider in about ten seconds, which is why it beats changing your home address first and guessing.

3. 3

   A VPN, if it comes to that

   Pick one whose addresses are not already burnt through.

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   Datacentre ranges are visible to anything that looks them up. Our own overlay flags them, which is a fair indication of how easy they are to spot from the other side.

4. 4

   A VPN on its own is not an unban

   Changing the address while keeping the same browser and the same account is the most common failed attempt.

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   It is why so many people conclude these bans are permanent. It is not that the ban is unbreakable, it is that the strongest signal was never touched.

Check it worked, and get the overlay running again

Four quick confirmations. The third catches almost every message we get about the overlay breaking after an unban.

1. 1

   Load Ome.tv before signing into anything

   The ban screen should be gone while you are still logged out.

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   If it is still there, no account is involved yet, so the ban is on your fingerprint or your address and the fix is Step 2 or Step 5 rather than a different login.

2. 2

   Sign in with the new account and connect once

   Get through a single connection before changing anything else.

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   If the ban returns within minutes of signing in, the account is the part still carrying it. Go back to Step 4 and make a genuinely fresh one.

3. 3

   Set the overlay up again on the new browser

   Your old script will not run here. Install the extension in the new browser, or generate a fresh script from your Dashboard.

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   A script is tied to the browser it was built in, and a different browser, or the same one on a different version, counts as a different device to the security check. Either way it takes seconds, costs nothing, and keeps all your settings.

4. 4

   Your OME.UNDFND account was never involved

   Access here runs through Discord, not through your Ome.tv login.

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   An Ome.tv ban never touches your VIP, your balance, your lookups, your history or your affiliate earnings, and nothing on this page puts any of them at risk.

The ways people undo their own unban

Every one of these has arrived in a support ticket phrased as "I did everything and it banned me again", roughly in order of how often it turns out to be the cause.

One honest note

This page exists because a large share of Ome.tv bans are automatic, land on recycled or shared addresses, and catch people who did nothing at all, including people whose only mistake was sharing a computer or a wifi connection with whoever the ban was actually meant for. That is worth clearing, and it is why our support team has been walking people through this sequence for years.

It is not worth clearing over and over. If you find yourself back on this page every week, the ban is following your behaviour rather than your hardware, and no amount of registry editing changes that. The fastest route to using Ome.tv without interruption is still the boring one: behave the way you would if the other person were standing in the room.

And to be clear about our side of it: OME.UNDFND does not ban anybody from Ome.tv and cannot unban anybody either. Their moderation is entirely theirs. What we can tell you is what a ban attaches to and in what order to clear it, which is what this page is. Our own overlay is unaffected either way, because your access here runs through Discord.