2063243 - www.southpark.de - Video player and media controls fail to load with Standard ETP in PBM

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Privacy: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

[Bernadett Farkas]

Environment:
Operating system: Windows 10
Firefox version: Firefox 153.0 / Firefox Nightly 155.0a1 (2026-08-12)

Preconditions:

• ETP set to Standard in Private Browsing Mode

Steps to reproduce:

1. Access: https://www.southpark.de/folgen/5xm5ws/south-park-brettspiele-staffel-23-ep-7
2. Observe the page

Expected Behavior:
The video player is displayed accordingly and the video can be played

Actual Behavior:
Video player and media controls fail to load

Notes:

• Reproduces in ETP Strict (Normal mode) and ETP Standard (Private Browsing mode)
• Reproduces in firefox-nightly, and firefox-release
• Does not reproduce in chrome

Created from https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/231491

Comment 1

[Bernadett Farkas]

Attachment: Video fails to load Nightly vs Chrome

Comment 2

[Martin Raiber]

Online user reports say blocking this breaks paramount+ in general

Comment 3

[Privacy Team Bot]

Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) exceptions have been deployed to address this issue.
You can view all current exceptions for this bug in the ETP exceptions dashboard: https://etp-exceptions.mozilla.org/?bug_id=2063243

We have deployed the following exceptions:

{
  "bugIds": [
    "2063243"
  ],
  "urlPattern": "*://tags.tiqcdn.com/*",
  "classifierFeatures": [
    "tracking-protection",
    "tracking-annotation"
  ],
  "category": "convenience",
  "topLevelUrlPattern": "*://www.southpark.de/*",
  "isPrivateBrowsingOnly": true,
  "filterContentBlockingCategories": [
    "standard"
  ],
  "filter_expression": "env.version|versionCompare(\"142.0a1\") < 0"
}
{
  "bugIds": [
    "2063243"
  ],
  "urlPattern": "*://tags.tiqcdn.com/*",
  "classifierFeatures": [
    "tracking-protection",
    "tracking-annotation"
  ],
  "category": "baseline",
  "topLevelUrlPattern": "*://www.southpark.de/*",
  "filter_expression": "env.version|versionCompare(\"142.0a1\") >= 0"
}

Comment 4

[Privacy Team Bot]

Would you please verify if the issue is resolved by the ETP exceptions? You can verify by testing in private browsing mode or in ETP-strict with exceptions enabled. Please set bug status to VERIFIED or REOPENED depending on whether this problem is still reproducible. Really appreciate your help.

Comment 5

[Bernadett Farkas]

Verified, the issue no longer reproduces. The video can be played accordingly in private browsing mode with Standard ETP and in ETP-strict with exceptions enabled.

Tested with:

• Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 156.0a1 (2026-08-18)
• Operating System: Windows 10