Re: OT: videos in Quora

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On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 13:00 +0100, greg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 13:36 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2025-01-03 at 22:33 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > There are several here:
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Johnston-39/Music-du-Jour-163-Victor-Borge-Sometimes-a-musician-is-just-fun-Victor-Borge-1909-2000-I-m-not-entirely-sure?ch=10&oid=204260273&share=1532059d&srid=uMi1o&target_type=post
> > > 
> > > They play for me on Fedora 40.  Are you using any YouTube ad blocking?
> > > Any NoScript add-ons.  Any proxies?
> > 
> > I do normally use ad-blocking, but as stated I've tested the site with
> > multiple browsers, including some with no extensions. I don't have a
> > proxy though I do normally use a VPN (Nord). However disabling it
> > temporarily doesn't make any difference. I can view YouTube videos
> > without issue.
> 
> FWIW
> The following has worked for me (Firefox 133.0.3, Fedora 40, Wayland):
> disable (for www.quora.com only)
> 1. Enhanced Tracking Protection (the shield pictogram on the left of the URL)
> 2. one of the browser extensions that I normally use
> 
> When figuring this out,
> firefox --safe-mode --new-instance
> was handy.
> 
> 

Nope. Same result exactly. No extensions, Enhanced Tracking turned off.

> The www.quora.com videos also work for me with Chromium (coming from Fedora 40),
> which has no extensions installed.

Chromium doesn't work either (F41). This doesn't look like a browser
problem. I even tried firing up a completely fresh installation of
Firefox on a VM running Linux Mint, and it still doesn't work.

I'm going to create a new Quora account to see if that's the problem,
though I don't see any settings that would explain it.

poc
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