Firefox, YouTube and NoScript

[fcpdiva1]

Confused and baffled here. I'm not a coder, programmer or anyone with a clue about how this stuff works. What I know is that two days ago, I was able to use Facebook the way I normally would, I was able to visit YouTube, especially by clicking on a link that a friend on FB had posted. Now with the current version of NoScript, I cannot. AND, I cannot figure out how to cut back NoScript's iron fist so that it only protects me against the worst offenses. I can't even get into my grad school website or my work website unless I disable NoScript. Up until two days ago, NoScript quietly ran in the background. Now its out of control.

NoScript made my internet playtime and worktime safe and enjoyable. It protected me from popups and clickjacking and people reformatting my browser... but then it went too far. It blocked my feeds, restricted my ability to "like" and "comment"... it even cut off my YouTube. I am sorry NoScript... but you've gone too far. I agree that there's a lot of evil on the internet, but don't protect me by tying my hands behind my back and putting a blindfold on my eyes.

If there is a simple and easy way for me to scale back NoScript by making adjustments to the preferences, then please post this somewhere and post it in plain English those of us who do not write code.

Thank you for your time.

[dhouwn]

Loved the dramatic language, seems like NoScript deemed it unnecessary for you to continue your studies at the grad school and you watching cat videos at Youtube.

In all seriousness:

• Export, reset, test, import.
• Deactivate all extensions but NoScript, see if this makes things better, if yes activate one deactivated extension, rinse and repeat.

.

[GµårÐïåñ]

Agreed, you are being way over dramatic and absurd and it almost laughable. Nothing has changed recently that would make NoScript have any more of an "iron fist" than it did before and if something is not working, you need check on your end and see what you are doing wrong or what you changed. Do a clean profile with NoScript only and if it still happens, then report back, otherwise when you realize its not NoScript you can go and try to dramatically complain to the other addons you might have which are most likely interfering or hell even user error.

[rg57]

I'm having the opposite problem. I've used NoScript for over a year. Up until a few days ago, when I visited a YouTube video, it would show the page, but the video itself would be blocked, with a placeholder. Now there's no placeholder, and the videos begin to play immediately. It seems something has happened recently either at YouTube or with NoScript that is causing some changes in how they behave together.

Something did happen to my Firefox profile recently, although I'm not sure what. It seems most of my settings for Firefox and addons have gone back to defaults, and it's taking up a lot less space on disk. Apparently something didn't like it. I did my best to set NoScript back the way I had it. Is there something I might have missed?

**UPDATE
I found what I needed: In NoScript Options, Embeddings tab, although I had checked "Show placeholder icon", that setting is not applied unless I also check "Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too".

So while things are working OK for me now, maybe there's something that happened to me and the OP a few days ago which damaged our profiles, which in turn affected how NoScript behaved.

[dhouwn]

AFAIK, "Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too" is not and never has been the default, so if you had the domains hosting the video/Flash content allowed then it would be allowed per-default. Maybe you didn't had it on your whiteliste until then? (or maybe another domain that Youtube now uses to deliver the content)

[GµårÐïåñ]

Correct, apply to trusted websites is not and has never been a default setting. If you want to see placeholders and have trusted the parent site, then you need to have that checked or else it will just allow it as its "trusted" by you.