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Why have [Youtube]link string[/youtube] fields gone invisible on DCF?

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4wd:
Your screenshot is odd though. I could not have done that. I wonder what is different in my setup?
In your screenshot, what does the red icon with an exclamation point signify?-IainB (July 30, 2013, 02:20 AM)
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I believe it means that some content on the page is unencrypted.  So while the content served from DC is encrypted, any external links to YouTube aren't.

You may find it better to mark HTTPS Everywhere to not action youtube.com rather than DC.

I used to use HTTPS Everywhere, (and the Greasemonkey alternative: HTTPS Please), but it caused more problems than it solved - easier to type https when I want it.

Just tested it now. It's consistent and repeatable:
Invisible YouTube frames: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21962.0
Visible YouTube frames: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21962.0
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Both those work fine for me, top one indicates some of the page is unencrypted.

IainB:

...You may find it better to mark HTTPS Everywhere to not action youtube.com rather than DC.
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...I used to use HTTPS Everywhere, (and the Greasemonkey alternative: HTTPS Please), but it caused more problems than it solved - easier to type https when I want it. ...
-4wd (July 30, 2013, 03:23 AM)
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I suspect that there is something peculiar to DCF in the way the square-bracketed YouTube fields are encoded in BB code. For example, if you put an http://... URL to YouTube in the field, it works fine, but if you put an https://... URL to YouTube in the field, it comes up with a BB code error.

HTTPS Everywhere works fine on youtube.com though, so I don't really want to change that.

I am still trialling HTTPS Everywhere and am interested in understanding why it does what it does and of what benefit that may be to me as a user. I may disable it if there's not much benefit from using it.

My overall objective is to establish some kind of optimum configuration for the automation of any useful privacy and security features - with little need for user control or tweaking.

4wd:
Well, I reinstalled HTTPS-Everywhere along with HTTPS Finder, (no rules for DC created), and I can still see the videos in the forum, still get the red exclamation mark against pages with partially encrypted contents.

A question: Do you automatically load embedded video, (I don't automatically load any embedded media) ?

IainB:
Well, I reinstalled HTTPS-Everywhere along with HTTPS Finder, (no rules for DC created), and I can still see the videos in the forum, still get the red exclamation mark against pages with partially encrypted contents.
A question: Do you automatically load embedded video, (I don't automatically load any embedded media) ?
-4wd (July 30, 2013, 07:32 AM)
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Maybe the URLs were being fetched from your history cache? I had to clear my cache to get rid of them and start afresh.

I thought I had it set up so that I don't automatically load any embedded media. That doesn't necessarily mean that is what is happening though!    ;D
What would I need to do to prove that, either way?

4wd:
Maybe the URLs were being fetched from your history cache? I had to clear my cache to get rid of them and start afresh.-IainB (July 30, 2013, 10:22 AM)
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I don't have Pale Moon, (or Firefox), set to use a persistant cache, (disc cache disabled), it's purely RAM based which is cleared every time it exits - which I had to do to install HTTPS Finder, (exit that is).  But I also cleared what little cache there was, just in case.

I thought I had it set up so that I don't automatically load any embedded media. That doesn't necessarily mean that is what is happening though!    ;D
What would I need to do to prove that, either way?
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If it's set to not autoplay then you should get the same kind of thing I get in the screenshot above, (apparently Pale Moon only).

AFAIK, the only thing I'm doing to achieve that are what you mentioned here and the one I mentioned here - not running any addons to block any media automatically playing.

ADDENDUM: OK, it appears as if it's a "feature" of Pale Moon - I just downloaded the portable version and ran it with no addons and no changes to default settings except for the two about:config entries mentioned.  If I then go to DC in HTTPS, the media is displayed as per my screenshot.  In Firefox, you get what you said - nothing.

So, my bad, sorry  :-[

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