metacritic.com: breakage

[anonyme123]

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URL address of the web page

https://www.metacritic.com/game/assassins-creed-mirage-valley-of-memory/

Category

breakage

Description

The video block is blank

Browser name and version

Chrome Version 150.0.7871.47 (Official Build) (arm64)

Other extensions used

none

Country

No response

Screenshot(s)

Screenshot(s)

Configuration

Details

name: uBlock Origin Lite
version: 2026.705.2152
browser: Chrome 150 (mac)
filtering:
 site: optimal
 default: optimal
permission: all
badge: 20
rules: 18091
rulesets:
 -fra-0
 -ublock-badware
 -urlhaus-full
 easylist
 easyprivacy
 pgl
 ublock-filters
scripting:
 ublock-filters.main
 ublock-filters.isolated
 easyprivacy.main
 easyprivacy.isolated
 prevent-popup
 toolbar-icon
 css-specific

[gothic-bum]

Test again after you:

1. Open the uBO Lite Develop pane

2. Select Custom DNR rules from the dropdown menu

3. Paste the following into the editor window and then click the Save button:

@@||g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js$script,domain=metacritic.com
@@||g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/$script,domain=metacritic.com

[anonyme123]

Nice, it works now. Though there's a bit of a delay for the thumbnail to pop up.

[RVJeff]

@stephenhawk8054 @gothic-bum This fix completely breaks the site; see #33615 for a full report

[gothic-bum]

@RVJeff

Provide the information in this thread.

Don't make volunteers have to reference other threads.

[RVJeff]

#33587 fixes videos but completely breaks the rest of the site. By renaming the appName from "metacritic" to "etacritic", all backend calls go to "https://backend.metacritic.com/composer/etacritic", making the site unusable.

[JayCarney]

8a9f414 introduces a wide reaching bug that breaks all client to https://backend.metacritic.com calls as the appName is used in constructing those calls (https://backend.metacritic.com/composer/${appName}). This means any user following a link using client side routing is shown a 404 when a mangled backend request fails to load. Refreshing the page will work for them as the SSR version of the page is not impacted by this

[stephenhawk8054]

Because you fandom guys put the crap ads before playing the videos, forcing users to unblock the ads connections doubleclick.net in order to play videos.