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I have the following blocked:

http://ads.rubiconproject.com/...
http://adserver-us.adtech.adve...;
http://ak.sail-horizon.com/hor...
http://ak.sail-horizon.com/sco...
http://cdn.krxd.net/controltag...
http://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/...
http://cdn.tinypass.com/xbuild...
http://player.ooyala.com/ooyal...
http://player.ooyala.com/stati...
http://staticxx.facebook.com/c...
http://www.googletagmanager.co...
http://www.googletagservices.c...
https://bam.nr-data.net/1/4b41...
https://static.chartbeat.com/j...
https://staticxx.facebook.com/...

Maybe the tinypass is the thing to block?

I also have RefControl and GreaseMonkey installed. Those might help.

I have the following blocked:

http://ads.rubiconproject.com/...
http://adserver-us.adtech.adve...;
http://ak.sail-horizon.com/hor...
http://ak.sail-horizon.com/sco...
http://cdn.krxd.net/controltag...
http://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/...
http://cdn.tinypass.com/xbuild...
http://player.ooyala.com/ooyal...
http://player.ooyala.com/stati...
http://staticxx.facebook.com/c...
http://www.googletagmanager.co...
http://www.googletagservices.c...
https://bam.nr-data.net/1/4b41...
https://static.chartbeat.com/j...
https://staticxx.facebook.com/...

Maybe the tinypass is the thing to block?

I also have RefControl and GreaseMonkey installed. Those might help.

Here's the video URL returning the mp4 file. No script stuff needed, only curl, wget, or just a browser which can play media files:

http://cf.c.ooyala.com/dzMWU3e...

Slashdot is pretty "lightweight" and yet:

The size of JS embedded on this page I'm replying from is 33K in about 890 lines of code.

Externally loaded libraries are (most minimified):

http://a.fsdn.com/sd/all-minified.js?release_20150309
http://player.ooyala.com/v3/85...
http://a.fsdn.com/sd/html5.js
http://a.fsdn.com/sd/comments-...
http://www.googleadservices.co...

Total size: 1147446 bytes, aka 1.1MB.

You are welcome.

Ooyala is the company that does the video hosting/serving for our video content. A whois chain is probably less helpful than going to their public website.

Taboola is the company that handles the sponsored links between stories and comment sections.

The images will prevent me from reading Slashdot at work. The plain text layout one of the reasons I can read it here without setting off alarms.

Of the images on the page:

Some guy's head adds no meaning or context to the story.

A video game guy with a gun means I better block images or I'll be unable to read Slashdot at work. Which means probably never given my lack of time at home. That sucks because Slashdot is very relevant to what I do. Just today I sent the Microsoft Azure story to our director. I would hate to have to create a separate work account that filters out stories about games.

Running Linux Mint 13 (Mate ed.) and it plays neither on firefox or midori. Is there another source to watch this? wget -O taco http://player.ooyala.com/static/cacheable/444fd7076af0334709af3684f7f0e127/player_v2.swf -- (fail). Any suggestions?

They're using the ooyala player which should support Apple devices http://www.ooyala.com/support/docs/tutorial_mobileoptions

/. is using Ooyala for their video hosting/playback service.

Ooyala does support HTML5 video delivery, but I believe it only triggers the switch away from Flash on iOS devices. I'm not sure there's a workaround as I haven't hacked around much with the Ooyala player code.

It is because you've disabled local shared objects (flash cookies). Seems they're using Ooyala's video tech, and the other place I've run into it, the video fails in the same way with Flash configured to not allow LSOs.