minute.ly

[maoz_mel]

Hi,

Our domain was added to the easylist a month ago.
Our product displays organic video content from customers’ websites, via a native HTML video player
e.g. "Editor's Picks" in

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https://www.formula1.com

home page
our JavaScript

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https://apv-launcher.minute.ly/api/launcher/MIN-109600.js

was blocked on Ad Block/Plus, and others.

We suspect the reason for being added to easylist is a pre-roll ad playing before the organic video was playing. The ad is provided by an external ad vendor, and is not created or delivered from "minute.ly" domain.

As soon as our domain was added to easylist, the publisher's organic content was blocked, thus negatively impacting the end user experience such.
Our offering includes additional products (such as video dynamic thumbnails), which do not involve advertising of any kind and are now blocked for no reason.

We hope the above helps explaining our solution better (we deliver organic content from our domain, not advertising) and would greatly appreciate your assistance in removing our domain from the easylist.

[intense]

I'm able to play the video on this page

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.tech-tuesday-why-monaco-proved-tough-for-mercedes-and-why-silverstone-could.45SiIlD1lSbwr4LCdSks9v.html

without adding any exception.

To get your launcher working I need 2 exceptions:

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@@||googletagmanager.com/gtm.js$script,domain=formula1.com

and then minute.ly itself

[maoz_mel]

Thanks for your quick response
The issue is when we are trying to load videos from "minute.ly" domain
As you can see on the homepage, when the ad-blocker is turned on, the video behind the green rectangle is missing because it is blocked

[intense]

right, needing at least

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@@||apv-launcher.minute.ly/api/$script,domain=formula1.com

but could be directly removed ||minute.ly^$3p

@fanboy

[maoz_mel]

Thanks for your response,

We are working on multiple websites,
so if possible I'd appreciate if we could have a generic solution and not a specific one for formula1

[intense]

an exception has been added in Easylist:

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@@||apv-launcher.minute.ly/api/$script

[maoz_mel]

Thank you!

Is it possible to add

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https://snippet.minute.ly/* 

to allow list?
it's another product without any ads.
This product present video previews for video players.
e.g. on "euronews.com" homepage when you hover a video, you get a preview.
It doesn't have any ads.

[fanboy]

No, that is why it was added in the first place.

[maoz_mel]

why? it's not an ad - it's a local video file.
it allows the user to watch the video preview and only then decide if he would like to watch the whole video.

[maoz_mel]

Hi @fanboy
How can we avoid blocking organic video content such as video previews? (without ads)

Thanks
Maoz