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Blocking DoubleClick blocks NBC steaming video

I was unable to play steaming video on nbc.com with Ghostery's DoubleClick blocking enabled.

Here are two examples
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv...
http://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-spec...

The video plays just fine, without advertisement, once I allow DoubleClick and reload the page.
I think one of these two is related
http://www.ghostery.com/gcache/?n=RG9...

http://www.ghostery.com/gcache/?n=RG9...

I am using Firefox on 6.0.2 with Ghostery 2.6.0.1 and have experienced the problem on both OS X 10.6 and Windows Vista.

I am happy with the Ghostery plugin and hope this feedback will help you improve.
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  • Hi Anonymous, thanks for using Ghostery.

    Sadly, some publishers integrate too closely with their 3rd parties creating issues like the one described above. I'll look into the NBC video implementation to see if we could provide a surrogate, but that might take a while. In the mean time, you may whitelist the site or keep DoubleClick temporarily unblocked while watching NBC videos.

    To anonymously report issues, please send email for support@ghostery.com via an anoymizer.
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  • CBS also appears to have a dependency on DoubleClick. (Unless this is a "false positive" — see below.)

    Sample: http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_the...


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    Block Log:

    Blocked sub-object: http://www.cbs.com/thunder/ad.doubleclick.net/adx/request.php?command=getPodConfig;/videos.can.com/cbs/%2Fent%2Fpt%2Fbbt%2Ffe%2Frb%3Bsite%3Dentertainment%3Bdpart%3Dprimetime%3Bshow%3Dbigbangtheory%3Bfeat%3Dfull_episodes%3Bfeat%3Drebroadcast;partner=cbs;vid=2156703758;outlet=CBS+Production;pid=EXzzotAaJTp5TVZ58HzsnKjgxaBCJOh3;noAd=;type=ros;format=MPEG4;length=1295545;pos=1;sz=320x240;ord=****** origin: www.cbs.com
    Blocked sub-object: http://www.cbs.com/thunder/ad.doubleclick.net/adx/request.php?/videos.can.com/cbs/%2Fent%2Fpt%2Fbbt%2Ffe%2Frb%3Bsite%3Dentertainment%3Bdpart%3Dprimetime%3Bshow%3Dbigbangtheory%3Bfeat%3Dfull_episodes%3Bfeat%3Drebroadcast;partner=cbs;vid=2156703758;outlet=CBS+Production;pid=EXzzotAaJTp5TVZ58HzsnKjgxaBCJOh3;noAd=;type=ros;format=MPEG4;length=1295545;pos=1;sz=320x240;ord=******;embed=0;playerVersion=UVP2.9.1;host=www.cbs.com;DVAR_UVP=UVP2.9.1;br=765;bw=0;ua=**************** origin: www.cbs.com

    (The video plays normally if DoubleClick is unblocked.)

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