theonion.com videos (again)

[Alan Baxter]

Embedded videos are blocked again. Maybe the onion changed something.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/c ... sing_money
Blocked by

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.com/ads/

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@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$object_subrequest

isn't being matched for some reason.

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Updated EasyList/EasyPrivacy
EasyList Last modified: 18 Oct 2009 17:36 UTC
EasyPrivacy Last modified: 18 Oct 2009 12:18 UTC

[MonztA]

@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$object_subrequest,xmlhttprequest

or

@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$xmlhttprequest

[cb474]

I'm also experiencing this problem. The ".com/ads" filter blocks:

http://videos.theonion.com/ads/

And then if the ads won't play, neither will the video.

[Ares2]

@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$object_subrequest,xmlhttprequest

[e80]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/d ... _to_use_up

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@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$object_subrequest,xmlhttprequest

This whitelist now breaks playback of the second part of the video. Jump to the end of the video at the given link to see what i mean. Removing the whitelist fixes the problem.

[Erunno]

I can't actually reproduce the original breakage for the whitelist filter. I turn off the filter and everything seems to work fine.

[e80]

Uh.. the problem occurs because of the whitelist filter that is now in EasyList. Once it's disabled everything works fine.

To reproduce the problem have that whitelist filter enabled (as it is in EasyList by default), go to the video and jump to the end of it. Once it finishes, there's a loading progress circle (usually a video ad would play at that point), but otherwise nothing happens. Once you disable the whitelist filter, another video (not an ad) will play after the progress circle. Hence the whitelist filter should be removed from EasyList.

[Michael]

Removed (https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/f6d5aa833dab)

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@@||theonion.com/ads/video-ad$object_subrequest,xmlhttprequest

[Erunno]

Uh.. the problem occurs because of the whitelist filter that is now in EasyList. Once it's disabled everything works fine

Yes, I understand that. I tried to reproduce the old breakage first so that removing the whitelist filter won't fix the current problem in exchange for getting the old one back. But I couldn't reproduce the old one (video not playing) so it's probably save to remove the whiltelist filter again (for now).