[HTTPS-Everywhere] BUG: YouTube videos losing expand option when HTTPS Everywhere is enabled

[Maxim Nazarenko]

I can confirm this this behavior (FF6.0.1 at W7x64, current git
HTTPS-Everywhere). Disabling Ytimg.com rule solves the problem,
however.

On 26 August 2011 20:58, Aaron Paul Madriñan <snoocete at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good day, I just stumbled upon this weird behavior when using the HTTPS
> Everywhere extension with YouTube.
>
> HTTPS Everywhere version: 1.0.1
> Firefox version: 6.0 and 7.0 beta 2
> Operating system: Windows 7
> How to trigger the bug:
>  - watch a youtube video via HTTP (it defaults to this -- youtube is
> blacklisted in HTTPS Everywhere as buggy for breaking embedded videos),
> check if it uses the Flash player
>  - if it uses the Flash player, click on the expand button in the lower left
> of the video
> What is expected to happen:
>  - the video resizes and takes up more space in the windows, also increasing
> the resolution from 360p to 480p.
> What actually happens:
>  - the video does not resize, but the resolution says it still increases
> from 360p to 480p. the expand button changes state from un-expanded to
> expanded.
> Note that this happens when YouTube is _disabled_ in HTTPS Everywhere. If
> you enable it there and then access the video via HTTPS, it expands as
> expected.
> I did most of my trials on the Justin Bieber "Baby" video
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4) although as far as I can tell
> it also works the same on most other YouTube videos. It seems despite
> YouTube being disabled in HTTPS Everywhere, the extension apparently does
> something to it when viewing the HTTP site so as to disable the expand
> button.
>
>
> Aaron Paul Madriñan
>
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