[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere and FlashVideoReplacer conflict

[Peter Eckersley]

This is probably an instance of:
  
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3190

Unfortunately, we can't fix it on the HTTPS Everywhere side until Mozilla
implements this:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692915

You could ask the author of Flash Video Replacer to implement one of these
compatibility workarounds:

1. Listen to the event HTTPS Everywhere sends when rewriting URLs
2. Add code to handle a redirect during their request 
3. Make requests to the HTTPS version of YouTube instead

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:08:01AM -0700, grave_123 at riseup.net wrote:
> I didn't know where to post this so I figured I'd just forward it to
> this email. There seems to be a conflict going on with HTTPS
> Everywhere and Flash Video Replacer on YouTube. If I have HTTPS
> Everywhere's ruleset for YouTube enabled and Flash Video Replacer
> enabled, no video will start unless it's HTML5=true. I have to
> disable the YouTube ruleset in order to get video. I sent this
> problem to the developer of FVR and they told me it was a problem
> with HTTPS Everywhere.
> 

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