Open Techguyprivate opened 4 years ago
Link to youtube videos expalining the bug without any sound.
In start of the video given in below link, it shows how in latest chrome with adblocker and blocking third party cookie al together, videos starts playing in .
Also in below link explains how hotstar.com is different in India and US . There are free videos avail in India , but paid prime membership is compulsory for US .
@Techguyprivate Is `hotstar.com in your autoplay list? brave://settings/content/autoplay
cc: @GeetaSarvadnya Can you take a look?
cc: @srirambv I think this might be autoplay?
Tested https://www.hotstar.com/in/chhapaak-promo/1260020933
Only works if Shields is configured with Allow all cookies
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@Techguyprivate just a ping, is still an issue in Brave? I just tested the sample video; https://www.hotstar.com/in/chhapaak-promo/1260020933
seems to playback without issue now
Description
Videos are not playing on hotstar.com. It shows " Uh oh , something went wrong " .
Steps to Reproduce
Click on any videos , episodes, films or serials .
Important Note :
If you visit ' hotstar.com ' from India or having an Indian IP address , it will take you to the ' hotstar.com/in ' , where one can find some free videos and one can watch without logging in , without registration , without a paid subscription or paid membership or paid premium account .
There are some videos available as free , without a account or paid membership, paid premium account or subscription. The free videos don't have a tiny star sign/symbol on the upper left side .
Videos or films having the star sign on it need a paid subscription or premium paid account.
5 . But if you acess the site from US or IP address coming from USA, it will take you to the ' hotstar.com/us ' . Where there is no free videos or films or any star sign or symbols on videos . You must have an paid membership or paid premium account .
Actual result:
Showing " uh oh , something went wrong "
Expected result:
Videos should play .
Either video ads come first, then the videos having content , videos of serials or films.
See on the upper right side for indication and text of advertising .
The exact word ' Visit Advertiser ' .
Video ads before videos are short about 6 sec with a yellow progress bar and on the upper right side showing " Video starts in 5 or 4 sec " .
Or
Videos starts playing with the normal intro and disclaimer with a sound icon on lower left side , a progress bar on lower side indicating how long the video, and a setting to adjust quality of the video and subtitles on lower right side.
With adblocker or no ads , video ads at first .
Reproduces how often:
Easily reproduced.
Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave 0.70.123 Chromium: 78.0.3904.97 (Official Build) (64-bit) Revision 021b9028c246d820be17a10e5b393ee90f41375e-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#859} OS Linux JavaScript V8 7.8.279.23 Flash (Disabled) User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36 Command Line /opt/brave.com/brave/brave --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --sync-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --enable-features=NewExtensionUpdaterService,PasswordImport,WebUIDarkMode,SimplifyHttpsIndicator --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,SmsReceiver,AudioServiceOutOfProcess,NotificationTriggers,SyncUSSBookmarks,UnifiedConsent --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end Executable Path /opt/brave.com/brave/brave Profile Path /home/linux/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile 4
Version/Channel Information:
Other Additional Information:
Miscellaneous Information:
Disabling shields , the videos starts playing. But ads come up.
2.Keeping shields on , but disabling cross site cookies blocked by changing it to allow all cookies , videos starts playing.
Enabling shields , but disabling cross site trackers blocked videos don't play. Ads come up .
So it seems blocking cross site cookie is the causing the problem .
But In Google Chrome, Vivaldi , blocking third party cookies , video starts playing.
It works with Ublock origin, nano adblocker too installed and third party cookie blocking on / enabled on latest Chromium and chromium beta .
![Screenshot from 2019-11-10 16-19-28](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43615747/68542791-06b2ed80-03a8-11ea-9507-0f17009f305a.png)