[HTTPS-Everywhere] 0.9.9.development.4 CBS video problem

Andreas Jonsson andreas at romab.com
Mon Apr 11 02:32:24 PDT 2011


On 2011-04-08 23.58, cheesypoof2020 at yahoo.com wrote:
> With only v.0.9.9.development.4 of HTTPS Everywhere enabled with default 
> redirection rules, cbs.com videos fail to work properly for me. I receive a 
> message: "The video you have requested is either unavailable or is being blocked 
> by an ad blocker installed in your browser." If I disable all rules, the video 
> runs just fine. I have so far failed to pinpoint which specific rule is causing 
> the problem here. I am running Minefield v4.2a1pre 2011-04-08 on Windows 
> 7-32bit. Once again, all other add-ons were disabled. I was attempting to watch: 
> "http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/video/?play=true&pid=tswBq3hv00XfLbHRDgYFvGOgHjwBKGHa".
>  Let me know if I can do anything to help test a solution to this problem.
> -James

The problem is the Doubleclick.net rule. If you disable that rule,
things should start working again.

This rule should probably be disabled by default. it apparently breaks
bbc as well.

/Andreas



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