Why do I need to allow googletagservices.com to watch video?

[DracoArum]

I am wondering why I need to enable googletagservices.com? There was a video I was interested in watching on Gamespot (www.gamespot.com) but I couldn't watch it unless I had that script allowed. I am an advocate of user privacy, and I totally distrust Google, UNLESS I absolutely have to, such as looking up an address on a map. What exactly do they use with the information and how long is it retained? I am thinking that as I allowed that script, there was an advertisement for a game. That's why.

Privacy on the internet is an oxymoron. I know I sound paranoid and crazy, but this is just my opinion. Pretty soon it's going to get to the point where you won't be able to buy or sell anything unless you have a biochip implanted in your body that contains everything they want to know about you.

[barbaz]

googletagservices is supposed to have a surrogate making it so you don't ever need to allow it to get things to work. Please provide exact link to this video so we can take a look at this. Thanks.

[DracoArum]

In this case, it's at http://www.gamespot.com/videos/alienwar ... 0-6421799/.

[barbaz]

There are a lot of script sources on that site, can you please post a complete list of the sites that you have script-allowed (other than googletagservices) when it works?
(You can right-click the menu item to copy the domain name to the clipboard.)

[DracoArum]

Sure, no problem.


Allowed scripts:

gamespot.com
googleapis.com (It's been my experience that unless I enable this one, some sites don't work properly)
googletagservices.com
yahoo.com (I have an email address with this one)
yimg.com


Do you want me to post the scripts that I haven't allowed?

[barbaz]

Do you want me to post the scripts that I haven't allowed?

Not needed. Thanks.

[barbaz]

Got it working, now we wait for Giorgio to include the fixed surrogate in NoScript.
Please note that this update does *not* prevent the playing of that ad.

In the meantime you can manually go to about:config and set noscript.surrogate.googletag.replacement to

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googletag={__noSuchMethod__:function()this,slots:{},cmd:{__noSuchMethod__:function()this, push:function(f){return f();}}}

[DracoArum]

Thank you so much for your help.

[barbaz]

The fixed surrogate landed in latest development build 2.6.9.21rc1