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OK thanks for letting me know. It was a bit confusing, but I have a feeling that the Bypass Paywalls extension was involved, I think I made a mistake by also using a Bypass Paywalls filterlist in uBlock, so this was causing issues.

 

This filterlist alone is not very effective without their userscript (needs a script manager like Violentmonkey installed).

Just delete their filterlist from uBO.

 

Regarding Bypass Paywalls Clean, I wouldn't say the filterlist alone is not very effective without the userscript, it works perfectly for the few newspaper sites that I need to be able to view. But of course, the filterlist alone without the userscript doesn't support as many sites as the extension does.
If the Bypass Paywalls Clean filterlist is not enough, just remove it from uBO, as nicolaasjan said, and use the extension, not both the extension and the filterlist.

 

This is what the author himself has to say:

 

If the extension is installed, then only that is enough.
If filter list is used in adblocker then it is better to pair it with the userscript.
I prefer the latter approach.

 

That is why I also wrote, "But of course, the filterlist alone without the userscript doesn't support as many sites as the extension does."

 

Yes, I saw that, but I still wanted to link to their statement.
I noticed in the Pale Moon browser that even the combination of the list and the userscript was not enough for Bloomberg.



(I fear we're getting offtopic now)

 

OK guys, thanks for the feedback, regarding Bypass Paywalls. But I'm afraid something isn't quite right with ISDCAC. I just noticed that when it's disabled on iexprofs.nl, only then Twitter's imbedded content can load. So eventhough it's not even supposed to be active on this website (no green checkmark), it still interferes with loading of content. I wonder how this is possible and if you can reproduce this.

https://www.iexprofs.nl/Nieuws/788139/Must-Read/Must-read-s-Werelds-grootste-olieproducent-is.aspx

 

I could reproduce this in a clean Chromium profile with only ISDCAC.
After turning the extension off, this consent dialogue appears:



Issue reported.

 

@Rasheed187,
I'm sorry, I can't help you.
With Firefox, on iexprofs.nl I see ISDCAC's green checkmark. Even if I disable ISDCAC on iexprofs.nl, Twitter embedded content does not load.
Perhaps it's my Firefox settings, or uBlock Origin annoyances or cookies filter lists, or something else.
Myself, I am very happy if Twitter embedded content does not load, that is how I want it. I want nothing to do with Twitter/X.
Perhaps someone else can help.

Edit:
Ah, I see nicolaasjan can reproduce the issue and already reported.
Outstanding.

 

On Chromium there was no green check mark...
[Edit] Tested in another Chromium browser and there did appear a green check mark...

I didn't test in Firefox, because I have replaced ISDCAC there with Consent-O-Matic.
I have never been able to let the Twitter content show on Firefox, no matter how hard I tried.

Btw, there are a lot of cookies there...

 

With uBO on, and the Avast-owned IDCAC both on and off, the page displays the Twitter content within the article, without images, but the sidebar just shows an X but no tweets. BP is not active. (I'm in the U.S.)

 

Thanks for reporting. I have performed a PC reset because of problems with Windows and I reinstalled Vivaldi (and extensions) from scratch, and it seems like ISDCAC is sometimes conflicting with other extensions like Bypass Paywalls and perhaps also uBlock. For example, on Bloomberg it currently seems to correctly handle the annoying cookie alert after installing a new version of Bypass Paywalls Clean. And uBlock is now not using any Annoyances filters, I don't know if this also plays a role. But still no indication that ISDCAC is actually active on Bloomberg, so this seems to be the bug.

 

I was also able to reproduce this in Firefox. ISDCAC acts like it's not even active on iexprofs.nl, but it still blocks Twitter embedded content.

Yes correct, if you see no images then it's blocked, that's the problem.

 

Something is different for us.
As I mentioned, on iexprofs.nl I do see ISDCAC's green checkmark, so it indicates it is active on iexprofs.nl.
You say SDCAC acts like it's not even active on iexprofs.nl, so that is different from my experience.

 

Yes, I forgot to mention this. With Firefox I do see the green checkmark on iexprofs.nl, but not on Vivaldi. But on Bloomberg I don't see the green checkmark on both Firefox and Vivaldi, but ISDCAC still blocks it, can you reproduce this in Firefox? To clarify, ISDCAC is the only extension that's active in Firefox right now, so no uBlock or Bypass Paywalls. However, I assume that the Firefox built-in adblocker is enabled, don't know if this blocks cookie alerts as well.

 

I tested:
In Firefox, at bloomberg.com/europe, ISDCAC is not active, there is no green checkmark, and I see no cookie banner.
I disabled cookie notices filter lists in uBO, but not any other uBO filter lists, nor did I disable Firefox enhanced tracking protection, nor did I fully disable or uninstall ISDCAC.

Regarding the Firefox cookie banner blocker, it is enabled for users in Germany only.
Regarding Bloomberg, I don't know if it has any cookie banners at all, and if it has, based on my test, I cannot say what it is that blocks any banners.

 

OK thanks, weird that you don't see the banner. I do believe that ISDCAC might be active on Bloomberg based on what I've seen, but the cookie alert might also be handled by Bypass Paywalls. Of course, if ISDCAC is active on certain sites (without green checkmark) and it successfully manages to click those cookie alerts away, then I wouldn't mind. But I still would like to know for sure if it's active in case of problems with website loading.

 

I must have missed this comment. So on some Chromium browsers you see it, but not on others, quite weird. BTW, I saw the same problem on this website, no green checkmark, but you can only see the video player if you disable ISDCAC, this is on both Vivaldi 6.5 and Firefox 121.

https://www.gids.tv/video/612657/me...den-dus-met-30-over-de-snelweg-vandaag-inside

 

I'm also seeing it on AT5, both on Vivaldi and Firefox there is no green checkmark, as if ISDCAC isn't active on the website, yet it blocks cookies because only if you disable it, you will get to see embedded Twitter content. So seems to be a serious bug, not just on Vivaldi.

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/224536...ing-dodelijk-slachtoffer-diemen-nee-niet-doen

 

BTW, I now see it on a lot more sites. So apparently ISDCAC somehow forgets to show the green checkmark. Not a big deal, because I'm of course happy that the cookie alerts get suppressed automatically, but it still should function correctly IMO. Here is another example, only when I disable ISDCAC I can see the cookie alert, on both Firefox and Vivaldi.

https://www.bahlsen.com/int/en

 

I've reverted to the original IDCAC filter in the form of a filter in the Adguard app/extension which is regularly maintained.