5.1.4 no longer blocks Youtube from automatically playing

[Guest]

Previously clips on Youtube would require a click to allow the audio and video before loading with my settings. It no longer does after Noscript updated to 5.1.4. Now everything just plays.

Is that by design now?

[barbaz]

The NoScript 5.1.4 update should not cause that sort of change.

If you downgrade NoScript back to the last working version, does this problem go away?

Old NoScript @
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/noscript/versions / https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/noscript/versions/beta
*or*
https://noscript.net/feed?c=100&t=a

[therube]

What are your settings in NoScript Options | Embeddings ?

With 'Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too', I'm getting the placedholder, but I'm having to click it - at least twice, before getting playback. (I think its cycling through formats with each click.) [I don't know if that behavior is new or different?]

[barbaz]

With 'Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too', I'm getting the placedholder, but I'm having to click it - at least twice, before getting playback. (I think its cycling through formats with each click.) [I don't know if that behavior is new or different?]

That's expected behavior and due to the way Youtube works. It has been this way for a while now.

[Guest]

I checked a couple of the same clips that were working normally with 5.1.3 but then started loading automatically with 5.1.4 and they are back to having the placeholder requiring the ok to load today. One exception is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrzAK2tZxw which now doesn't bring up a placeholder Noscript overlay but also doesn't load. That one just won't load and says an error occured.

Nothing changed on this end but it, mostly, appears as it used to now for an unknown reason. Something Youtube is doing?

The NoScript 5.1.4 update should not cause that sort of change.

If you downgrade NoScript back to the last working version, does this problem go away?

Old NoScript @
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/noscript/versions / https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/noscript/versions/beta
*or*
https://noscript.net/feed?c=100&t=a

I would be afraid that I would troubleshoot one issue and cause a dozen more. My comfort level tinkering is limited unless no other option.

What are your settings in NoScript Options | Embeddings ?

With 'Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too', I'm getting the placedholder, but I'm having to click it - at least twice, before getting playback. (I think its cycling through formats with each click.) [I don't know if that behavior is new or different?]

All checked except for the no placeholder and collasped blocked objects options. Same settings I've had for awhile. No changes. That is they way it is now behaving again today and wasn't yesterday.

Since it appears different today from yesterday, probably not worth your time any longer. But, thank you both for the help.

The only other thing I can think of to add, in case it might be related. Will, or does, Noscript require dom.storage.enabled and/or dom.indexedDB.enabled set to true for proper function? It didn't used to but I am not sure if that will change. Noscript created three exceptions in the permissions.sqlite file a version or two ago. Do those exceptions mean Noscript will work even when set to false?