RE: Help Needed - Technical
^^^ VK has had some issues regarding copyright violations, particularly with vids and pics, and are supposedly tightening up their systems regarding this. I wonder if they have rolled out some sort of security scripting measures which aren't quite as polished as they might be.
I have seen similar kinds of issues from the file sharing sites when they implement javascript protection measures to block download managers and suchlike. The browser can get 'stuck' in the javascript, throwing an error which gets misinterpreted by the website, and you get a file missing error, or an endless loop of captchas or something similar. This can often be specific to certain browsers or certain versions, as seems to have been the initial case here.
I tried one of your 'blocked' vids through the tor browser. It shows a still preview of the vid just fine, suggesting it is there OK. It won't play the vid as there is no flash player in that browser.
I configured my regular browser to go through tor, and the vid comes out as blocked. Perhaps here, because there is a flash player, the extra layer of script protection kicks in, and the blocked error occurs.
Accessing the vid through various proxies is hit and miss, most free proxies have major issues with allowing things like javascript through anyhow (accessing script heavy sites like MFC through free proxies is pretty hard work). Most proxies give the blocked message, but some do seem to show the vid OK, no blocked message, but they do fail at actually playing the vid, not really surprisingly.
If this is the issue, it could be that with some further fine-tuning of the measures, things will return to normal in due course.
As for the vids being accessible if you have a VK account, it would make sense for any security measure to apply mainly to non-members, thus encouraging you to get an account.
Alternatively, but less likely, it could be a regional block applied to the UK and various other countries, perhaps to circumvent these copyright violation issues (I believe they blocked the US for this reason at one point). If someone has access to a vpn service with multiple exit points, that could be tested by trying different routes to access the blocked vids.
EDIT : just to muddy the waters further, in chromium I can access the vid direct from VK and play it just fine by copy-pasting the link (have to switch it to HD first).
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(This post was last modified: 04-01-2015 13:13 by munch1917.)
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