-- no, i never tried to run yandex with all that extensions (NoScript, Adblock, wherever ...) for obvious reasons, as you explained.

Thanks.

*Someone else from another forum found a kid of "solution" to this problem: hooktube!.

After finding nothing recent or relevant from searching, I renamed the browser's dot directory in /home to dot old. Using the newly created default settings, and without any plugins or extensions, I got sound and video at the real.video site. That told me the problem was local.

I deleted the newly created default directory and went back to the original. I figured NoScript was the culprit and found the same as fsmithred... a ton of sites all wanting to 'help' me watch a video. By trial/error I eventually found the 2 or 3 sites I needed to allow so the videos would work. My security settings caused the real.video problem.

I went to yandex and their videos showed mostly from youtube, with some from dailymotion. The problem was XSS... cross site scripting is required. As a test, I disabled NoScript and the videos worked. A suggestion... go to hooktube (or youtube) and search 'yandex' for their videos.

FWIW, I'm using Pale Moon.

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