Site's video links don't open in Win 10 browsers

highstream · 22 Jan 2021

For the past few days, I've been getting an email newsletter from Brownstone Research. Those newsletters typically contain a links to a video or two. With my iPad Mini 2, the latter play in Safari, but on my Win 10 desktop the loading spiral appears for an instant, then disappears leaving a blank page (no error message). I've tried with Opera, FF, Edge, Chrome and Vivaldi, some turning off ad blocking to check. I use MBAM Premium and Windows Defender/Firewall, but have not received any messages and cannot find anything relevant being blocked in their logs. So I'm at a loss. Any ideas? Thanks,

Here are two examples:
https://secure.brownstoneresearch.co...lcid=PLC087864
https://secure.brownstoneresearch.co...lcid=PLC089887

Win 10 v 20H2 (OS Build 19042.746)

Plankton · 22 Jan 2021

Neither of them work for me in Chrome, FF or Edge Chromium. So it's not just you.

highstream · 22 Jan 2021

Thanks, good to have confirmation. I've reported it the past two days, but no reply.

mngerhold · 23 Jan 2021

If I'm not too late: both links work for me on FF-84

TairikuOkami · 23 Jan 2021

It gets blocked, when 3rd party script is blocked, most likely anti-tracking protection within those browsers.
EasyPrivacy filter blocks it as well. I have ADs and Popups and redirects allowed within browser's settings.

Code:

@@||sitedetails.beaconstreetservices.com/V1/Asset/getSiteDetails?cid=MKT433980&eid=MKT508269&chainId=&plcid=PLC087864&preview=false$domain=secure.brownstoneresearch.com

Fabler2 · 23 Jan 2021

Link works in Edge for me.

Site's video links don't open in Win 10 browsers-image.png

highstream · 23 Jan 2021

Thanks for the replies! What's required is turning off or pausing ad blocking on all sites, not just the single site (obnoxious IMO), plus excepting the site for popups/redirects.

vipergg · 25 Jan 2021

Works for me, Win 10 20H2 and Firefox .

highstream · 25 Jan 2021

vipergg said:

Works for me, Win 10 20H2 and Firefox .

Given its evolution, the discussion is about under what conditions (settings) it works and doesn’t.