Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

cbsi.secure.force.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 130 posts

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#91

Post by ravenstine »

tokai wrote: post #89
infogulch wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> people aren’t looking to X- they’re bored Wow the way you put this brings so much into focus. All of these apps and websites with awful ux where you can't find anything because you're drowning in a sea of content and shit is constantly flashing in your face... that is the point . People actually want that, for no other reason than its entertainment and it distracts them from their boredom. They're not actually look…

I think calling it entertainment is very flattering. I would call it distraction, or maybe even conditioned response.

Surrogate entertainment?

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#92

Post by bdcravens »

yellowapple wrote: post #64
tdb7893 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the Internet right now. For just what I use every day Facebook, Spotify, Google, almost all news, Youtube, Reddit, and xkcd are all add supported. I get why people don't like ads but it's clearly how an absolutely massive portion of the modern Internet is monetized right now

> Spotify Maybe I'm just a freak or something, but I've been pretty happy as a monthly-paying Spotify subscriber. It's not my impression that the ad-supported version of Spotify is the "core" product.

I think it's not that uncommon (I've been paying for several years myself)

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#93

Post by lostmsu »

tdb7893 wrote: post #53
pavel_lishin wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> blocking ads will harm the industry Which industry?

It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the Internet right now. For just what I use every day Facebook, Spotify, Google, almost all news, Youtube, Reddit, and xkcd are all add supported. I get why people don't like ads but it's clearly how an absolutely massive portion of the modern Internet is monetized right now

If only there was a way to list your product on some shopping aggregator, and fight for clients by providing a better product. Too bad it is technically impossible.

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#94

Post by apk-d »

bcoates wrote: post #32

This is "have you tried turning it off and on again" not a conspiracy. These extremely generic troubleshooting instructions have nothing to do with anything CBS all-access is or isn't doing. Further down the page they tell you to clear your cache and history!

I don't know, this sounds extremely specific to me. I mean, you'd think they'd know exactly whether or not their website works on Firefox, especially in these enlightened auto-update times.

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#96

Post by bscphil »

HenryBemis wrote: post #67
amaccuish wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I.e. when a website just sticks pure text in in a page, no images, maybe just an for further info. Not HTML5 taking up 2/3s of the page, flashing and jumping about etc.

I am using Firefox with AdBlockPlus (older version that supports the -->), and one extra add-on called "Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus" [1]. This extra add-on doesn't block, but merely hides bits and pieces of the page. It mostly use it to cut-out/hide all "Related/Suggested" columns and tables, so when one article loads, I only see that on the page and nothing else. [1]: https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehe…

Incidentally, uBlock origin has this feature built in. uBlock is also better respected than ABP these days I believe, though of course you're free to use whatever addon you prefer.

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#97

Post by pdkl95 »

amaccuish wrote: post #49

I have yet to see an adblocker, that removes embedded text that came with the page, like the old days of Google. Maybe that could be a direction.

That's been available in popular adblockers for almost as long as adblockers have existed[1].

https://adblockplus.org/filters#elemhide

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...

[1] Before browser based adblockers existed (late 1990s), we used to use filtering proxies like Privoxy (formerly Internet Junkbuster). Of course, at the time, text filtering was usually Perl regex instead of CSS selectors.

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#98

Post by kgwxd »

DanBC wrote: post #17

They are at least giving people correct instructions to change this, unlike a bunch of sites that just tell people to turn off ad-blockers.

I'm glad they're desperate enough to allow the word "Tracking" to be used in the instructions. This is why I think all "Ad Blockers" should rebrand as "Tracking Blockers". It would force a more honest terminology to be used. "Turn off your tracking blocker" is a much scarier request to make.

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#99

Post by toofy »

seandougall wrote: post #84
guy98238710 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported Nearly all content online is user-generated. The publishers simply rip off contributors, slap ads on their content, and sell the content back to the same public that created it.

This thread is about CBS. Are you saying television is all user-generated content?

I’m not sure this comment is entirely fair if we consider they’re responding to a comment which refers to the wider internet, multiple times.

> It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the Internet right now... almost all news... absolutely massive portion of the modern Internet is monetized right now..

Re: Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

#100

Post by kalleboo »

anonymousab wrote: post #74

I've found it amusing that a few news sites disable their atrocious autoplaying videos (and often, the preview window that follows you when you scroll an article) when they detect ad blocking or tracking protection. They're purposely giving me a better experience for blocking, rather than an inferior one. But I guess the metrics must show or are being interpreted to show that most users prefer the obnoxiousness.

> But I guess the metrics must show or are being interpreted to show that most users prefer the obnoxiousness

I thought all the autoplaying video was because video ads pay more? It doesn't matter to the site if anyone actually watches the videos or not, as long as they count as an ad view and they get paid.

Post reply on HN