Videos don't play with "shields" tracking and advertising blocker on

Hello,

Today i installed brave and with the 1st site i opened i could not play the videos in this site.
This is the site: https:www.nu.nl
Scroll down to the bottom, and there you will see a bunch of videos.

Interesting is that when i visit the same site with brave tor it works like it should :slight_smile:

After some disabling and testing i found out that the above mentioned tracking and advertising blocker caused this.
Of course i would like to keep this feature enabled. Is this perhaps a bug?

Is there perhaps a workaround, so that i can still have this feature enabled?

I use the most recent version of brave, updated after installation.

V1.28.105 (Aug 11, 2021)

For information, I can confirm.
Methinks you should click that “report broken site” on the shields window.
Two of the blocked trackers are https://www.nu.nl/static/js/organisms/tealium/nu.tealium.recommendations.js?v=3 and https://cmp.nu.nl/wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js from that same site, my bets are on those.
Some sites employ anti-ad-blocker techniques, not sure if this is the case or simply their bug.

update: see Can't switch between accounts in YouTube - #9 by fanboynz for a similar problem and temporary workaround – meanwhile I read up on adblock syntax.

Not quite the same syntax. No issues playing https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6150977/taliban-veroveren-tiende-afghaanse-provinciehoofdstad-in-een-week-tijd.html (video at the bottom)

Strange. Even that video doesn’t play here without allowing trackers and ads.
But @@||nu.nl^ in brave://adblock seems to work (too generic, I know).
@@||cmp.nu.nl^ also works. Thing is, it will load other scripts after those ones and I’m still trying to narrow the filter.
Re syntax, https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust is compatible with AdBlock Plus, right?

Correct, was reffering to the cosmetic exceptions wouldn’t work here.

@@||myprivacy.dpgmedia.net/consent.js$script,domain=nu.nl in brave://adblock is needed, since blocking this script will cause playback issues

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Hell, that filter doesn’t work for me (or I’m going to slap myself very soon, I’m not sure).
I did refresh the page though.

Does it work in private window mode, with no extensions enabled?

No, doesn’t work even in private window. Nor does @@||myprivacy.dpgmedia.net^.
I’m quite sure there are no extensions involved because I never installed one.
I wanted to “clear browsing data” but the menu item is disabled in the private window, I guess because there’s nothing to clear.

I’ll recheck later, maybe try a vpn from a different location? (non-eu)

I tried with a “private window with TOR” and it worked.
It worked even without the filter exception though (with TOR).
I’d say that site is employing some trickery.

At first i used the global “allow trackers and advertisements”, but i did set this back to default, and now i use the “allow all trackers and advertisements” setting next to the address bar.

@ fanboynz: i am using vpn from non-eu location.

@ elder-n00b: yes i had this too. private window with tor worked as it should, which i think is kind of interesting.

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