Videos on Yahoo not loading

[user62015]

Hello,

I've noticed that, recently, videos on yahoo.com stopped loading unless I allow adserver.yahoo.com on NoScript, but... isn't that a tracking cookie?

Example: https://www.yahoo.com/food/how-to-make- ... 13961.html
Video will not appear or load with the following NS settings:
ALLOWED:
www.yahoo.com
geo.query.yahoo.com
twitter.com
yimg.com
fbcdn.net
flickr.com
facebook.com
video.yahoo.com

NOT ALLOWED:
us.adserver.yahoo.com
adserver.yahoo.com
yahoo.com
y.analytics.yahoo.com
analytics.yahoo.com

But the moment I allow us.adserver.yahoo.com, the video appears and loads.

I would go ahead and allow it permanently, except it doesn't look like something I should be allowing at all.
Any insight?

Thanks in advance.

[barbaz]

videos on yahoo.com stopped loading unless I allow adserver.yahoo.com on NoScript, but... isn't that a tracking cookie?

I'm not certain but it sounds to me like, er, an ad server... meaning, it serves advertisements... (which may or may not also contain trackers)

Example:

The board broke your link, please re-post it in url tags, like this

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[url]link here[/url]

But the moment I allow us.adserver.yahoo.com, the video appears and loads.

I would go ahead and allow it permanently, except it doesn't look like something I should be allowing at all.
Any insight?

Well, please re-post the link, and we'll check if that domain is a candidate for a default surrogate script.

[user62015]

I'm not certain but it sounds to me like, er, an ad server... meaning, it serves advertisements... (which may or may not also contain trackers)

Oh, I didn't know those did not always come together. Now I know!

Here's the link again https://www.yahoo.com/food/how-to-make- ... 13961.html
but pretty much any videos posted on yahoo.com behave like this now; this is just a random one I picked as an example.

Thanks!

[therube]

I'm no seeing all the domains you are?

All I need to allow is:
+yimg.com
+yahoo.com

Otherwise I saw:
-facebook.com
-flickr.com
-telemetryverification.net
-innovid.com
-twitter.com
-serving-sys.com


What settings are you using General -> Left clicking & Appearance ?

[user62015]

I'm having NS show full domains so I can leave things like analytics.yahoo.com disallowed while allowing other things under **.yahoo.com, for example.

Here are my settings:

-telemetryverification.net
-innovid.com
...
-serving-sys.com

I don't get those three for some reason.

[barbaz]

Well, these are the domains I Allowed to get it working:

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+www.yahoo.com
+yimg.com
+media.yql.yahoo.com
+adserver.yahoo.com
+video.yahoo.com

And upon inspection, it _appears_ that adserver.yahoo.com is not a script but an XHR destination, so I'm not sure there's anything to be done

[user62015]

OK :/ Thanks, anyway, for looking into this!