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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Run Orion Version 0.99.125.5-rc (WebKit 617.1.6) on a fresh profile
  2. Go to youtube.com
  3. Search for business insider
  4. Open the second result "14 Entrepreneurs Who Built Food Empires | Big Business | Insider Business" from October 1st
  5. The ads are blocked as expected and the video is able to be played.
  6. Quit Orion with ⌘+q while the youtube tab is the active one
  7. Relaunch Orion RC
  8. Notice that the video is not playing, instead displaying a black screen and the shown video duration is 9-15 seconds
  9. After a while (ca. 10-20 seconds) the video finally plays, in some cases the user has to click the "Skip ads" button in the bottom right corner of the video
  10. The video doesn't start playing at 00:00 but at 10-15 seconds (could be related to the supposed ad length)

These issues also happen when randomly browsing youtube but the above is, in my experience, a 100 % consistent way of reproducing the issue.

Expected behavior:
The ads should be blocked as expected. Orion beta does not have this issue.

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion Version 0.99.125.5-rc (WebKit 617.1.6)
Build date Oct 3 2023
MacBook Air (macOS Sonoma 14.0 build 23A344)

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RC behavior:

Beta behavior (the expected behavior):

  • Vlad replied to this.
    laiz changed the title to RC 125.5: Ad blocking isn't working consistently on YouTube .

      laiz Let's check after the next RC and custom blockers.

          7 days later

          Vlad
          Orion Version 0.99.125.6-rc (WebKit 618.1.1) seems have fixed this issue.
          Can be marked as done.

            3 months later

            I still have this problem with the newest update of Orion on the iPad. It‘s iPadOS 16.7.2. So maybe it‘s related to the newest Webkit.. But at the moment I don‘t want to upgrade yet. So could this be fixed like it was in the older 1.2.10 version where it worked perfectly?
            Thanks

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