Google Photos - Videos stuck on loading

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Issue by bitpixl Tuesday Jul 03, 2018 at 11:15 GMT

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When I try to play a (self recorded) video from photos.google.com, the video stays stuck on loading. Disabling Neat URL makes the video play as intended. I tried adding "photos.google.com" (even google.com) to the domain blacklist, but that doesn't seem to work. I have no idea which rule is needed to make it work.

I'm using Neat URL 4.1.5 with the 'suggested blocked parameters' and 'suggested url request types' from "https://github.com/Smile4ever/firefoxaddons/wiki/Neat-URL---Parameter-configuration"

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Comment by crssi Tuesday Jul 03, 2018 at 12:52 GMT

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I am not using photos.google.com so I can't get to the problem. Please enable logging in NeatURL. Open FF browser console (ctrl+shift+j). Go to photos.google.com to the point where video stucks. Copy and paste here just the last [NeatURL] message from browser console.

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Comment by bitpixl Tuesday Jul 03, 2018 at 15:26 GMT

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Thanks for answering and pointing me in the right direction. I'm a bit uncomfortable posting the [Neat URL] output as it seems like its the full url to my personal video. However, I was able to figure out that it's about googlevideo.com. When I add googlevideo.com to the domain blacklist the video works.

Is there a way that I can help out without giving the (full) output?

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Comment by crssi Tuesday Jul 03, 2018 at 16:31 GMT

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Yes. In the message, there is first the original URL followed by changed URL. Could you compare those and let me know the difference. You can do some changes in the data parts to avoid releasing your personal ID.

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Comment by bitpixl Wednesday Jul 04, 2018 at 07:58 GMT

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So I looked at the last [Neat URL] entry in the log and here are the differences between the original and changed url:

15&sc=yes&ratebypass to 15&ratebypass

_ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,playlisttype,ei,susc,mm,mn,ms,mv,pl,sc,ratebypass,mime,otfp,gir,clen,lmt,dur to ip%2Cipbits%2Cexpire%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cplaylist_type%2Cei%2Csusc%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Csc%2Cratebypass%2Cmime%2Cotfp%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Clmt%2Cdur

pf=1&range=0-591&rn=7&rbuf=0 to pf%3D1&range=0-591&rn=7&rbuf=0

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Comment by crssi Wednesday Jul 04, 2018 at 08:37 GMT

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add !sc@photos.google.com to parameters

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Comment by bitpixl Wednesday Jul 04, 2018 at 09:32 GMT

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that doesn't work, but I think I should have mentioned the domain listed in the url is googlevideo.com. I tried !sc@*.googlevideo.com (the log has multiple [neat url] entries with multiple googlevideo.com subdomain requests) and that works :+1:

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Comment by crssi Wednesday Jul 04, 2018 at 09:35 GMT

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cool, thank you

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Comment by crssi Wednesday Jul 04, 2018 at 14:50 GMT

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If you get any other findings, please, share those with us. Thank you again and cheers