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I think it is interesting that I don't experience that issue, with uBlock Origin default filter lists plus some more. nicolaasjan reported the same.
I cannot think of any explanation. I believe nicolaasjan uses Linux Mint and I use Kubuntu, but I don't see how the OS could be a factor.

 

I use Win10 pro maybe has something to do with the OS

 

see howtogeek entries, are same. ublock off, umatrix did.
i think there a some more similar pages, remember this.

for edge, you need the anti-tracking feature to balanced, not strong, sadly.
adguard mv3 need to be turned off, umatrix only working.

the problem for me is that i see two complete different videos, edge is a charger, in firefox its a "BluEtti" device, similar yesterday.

ublock

anyhow "ublock filters: ads" is blocking this part

and there exist no solution to make it visible, not

Code:

@-moz-document domain("makeuseof.com") {
.ad-zone:not(.textads)
{
    display: block !important;
}
}

or

Code:

makeuseof.com##.ad-zone:not(.textads)[style="display: block !important!"]

come on, if not "ads", then "easyprivacy" or "adguard dns" filter. annoying.

 

I don't think there's anything to figure out for him here.
That page plays the video just fine here with uBO enabled.
Have you tested with a clean profile with only uBO and default lists and configuration?

 

Windows 10, fresh new Firefox profile with default settings, uBlock only extension with default settings also. There is no video to play either in HowToGeek or MakeuseOf.
The video appears only after disabling uBlock for the page it is not necessary to disable uBlock completely from browser.

 

i dont care about both sites, so i dont need to change anything
anyhow i know how to write simple userscripts for violent-monkey to remove tags to make the content visible.

 

Then I would suggest to open an issue at the subreddit of uBO.
Posting Guidelines.
Important:

(paste between code tags for better readability)

Code:

uBlock Origin: 1.58.0
Firefox: 126
filterset (summary):
 network: 135323
 cosmetic: 48314
 scriptlet: 19627
 html: 1832
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 removed:
  plowe-0: null
 default:
  user-filters: 1-0, never
  ublock-filters: 38382-112, now Δ
  ublock-badware: 9008-1, now Δ
  ublock-privacy: 921-2, now Δ
  ublock-unbreak: 2368-2, now Δ
  ublock-quick-fixes: 90-3, now Δ
  easylist: 87251-168, now Δ
  easyprivacy: 50977-64, 3d.10h.22m Δ
  urlhaus-1: 13775-0, 14h.40m
  NLD-0: 2773-17, 3d.10h.22m
filterset (user): [array of 1 redacted]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 1 redacted]
userSettings:
 advancedUserEnabled: true
hiddenSettings:
 extensionUpdateForceReload: true
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 197 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 62 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB
popupPanel:
 blocked: 14
 network:
  makeuseof.com: 2
  adsninja.ca: 4
  google-analytics.com: 1
  google.com: 1
  googletagmanager.com: 2
  sentinelbi.com: 2
  unpkg.com: 1
  viglink.com: 1
 extended:
  ##+js(remove-cookie, /articlesRead|previousPage/)
  ##+js(abort-current-script, document.createElement, admiral)
  ##+js(abort-on-property-read, googletag)
  ##+js(remove-node-text, script, '"v4ac1eiZr0"')

 

Guys, for any issue that you can reproduce on uBO default on a fresh profile with an unfiltered DNS like Cloudflare, simply open an issue on their GitHub.
After seeing the ongoing discussion here I reported it last night and it has been fixed already.
Easy and simple:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/23937

 

The updated filters do not show here yet in the "Unbreak" list.
[Edit]
They have been added.

I don't like these exception rules though.
You're basically allowing ads and tracking on these pages...

 

Strange. For me it's working as expected but only on howtogeek. I have now asked them to fix it for makeuseof also. But as @nicolaasjan said, the solution in this case is to allow an ad/tracker blocking domain. Personally, I don't care about playing videos on this two sites and the allowed domain is blocked by my DNS. I can only see it if I'm using cloudflare dns.
Tomorrow I'll report it to AdGuard to see what they do since the ad domain is blocked by their DNS also.

 

@SeriousHoax,
Thanks for reporting issue #23937.

@nicolaasjan,
Thanks for your reply to issue #23937, mentioning you didn't have that issue on these sites, and that even now, when disabling the "Unbreak" list, the video can be played.
I posted a similar response.

 

thank you. as suggested i tried a fresh firefox profile and ubo default settings. without updates no video, after update i can see the video.
comparing with my used config i see a lot of blocked 3p scripts. setting for howto 3p script to noop and also noop for cloudfront makes the video visible without changing other settings here. thx for brainstorming.

edit. the unbreak list wasnt fixed for

Code:

https://www.makeuseof.com/nzxt-function-2-review/

so still no video because of

Code:

.ad-zone:not(.textads),

 

Well, multiple people have the same problem on Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi. So I wonder if he can explain why it's blocked on certain systems, that's what I meant.

OK cool, so Gorhill will try to fix this issue?

It's indeed strange that it works on Linux Mint and Kubuntu but not on Windows.

 

BTW, it's really weird, but all of a sudden I don't get to see any scripts being loaded from brightcove.com on Vivaldi. So I haven't got a clue how I fixed this, I don't think I enabled some new filterlist. And the element picker only hides stuff, so it doesn't actually block scripts from loading. To clarify, on Edge and Firefox I still get to see to annoying small autoplay videos, but on Vivaldi they are gone. So I guess I got lucky LOL.

Also, how do you block autoplay in Firefox, I didn't see any option in the addressbar. Vivaldi does have such a feature but just like on any other Chromium based browser, it's broken. I remember that Opera 12 was very good in blocking autoplay videos, can't understand why it doesn't work in Vivaldi. And the Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded) extension also doesn't work on Yahoo Finance for some reason.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/disable-html5-autoplay-re/cafckninonjkogajnihihlnnimmkndgf

 

@Rasheed187

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

 

In some cases, uBlock Origin's element picker offers only cosmetic filters, but in other cases network filters may be offered as well. For instance, in case of Yahoo Finance, for the first page that you mentioned, this is the network filter the element picker offers:
||s.yimg.com/rx/ev/builds/1.6.20/pframe.html$subdocument

deugniet provided a Mozilla Support link for that question.

 

Gorhill doesn't really touch filter rules unless necessary. He works on introducing new features, fixing bug related to the extension, improving performance, etc. Other volunteers maintain the uBO specific filter rules with the main ad and tracker blocking filters are of course from EasyList and EasyPrivacy which are maintained by Fanboy (Ryan) and 4-5 other experts.

 

Wow, then this might explain it, so the element picker is actually a bit more advanced than thought.

The thing is, recently I got to see a some scripterror on place of the small videos, but now I don't. Also, in the matrix I don't see brightcove.com being listed anymore, while a few weeks ago I did. I of course made a blockrule in the matrix for the Yahoo Finance site. So I don't know what changed, but it might be related to Vivaldi, because when I make the filter in Firefox, I never did get to see any scripterror.

OK I see. Would be cool if he at least could look at it though since multiple users have reported that they could not fix it.

Thanks. Strange that you can't configure this via the addressbar and even worse, this setting does NOT stop autoplay on Yahoo Finance, at least not on my system.

 

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker

 

Thanks, I hope he will bring this feature back in uBlock Lite. Also, I have another question to everyone, is there an easy way to delete all of the rules in My Filters? I know how to import them, but I don't see an option to delete any file.

 

Select All .. Del

 

LOL, you are a genius, totally forgot about this option.

I will now import my updated filter list, thanks.

 

Works! and does the job we expect.

 

From the end of July, Kees1958 will support only 1 list of filters:

https://github.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist

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P.S.

With Firefox, now, I can reliably do,the d3ward test:

https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html