I found a good work around (until you need Flash)
If you disable your Flash plugin in Chrome (chrome://plugins), then if a site also has an HTML5 player; it will use HTML5 instead of Flash.
On ESPN - They embed a short ~15 second ad before the actual video. Super easy to deal with.
On Adult...
That works but unfortunately it also white lists every ad on ESPN's site.
I know that the way that Ublock/Adblock blocks ads is different than a hosts file block, but was curious if anyone had a work around for players that check if an ad has been played before initializing.
Unfortunately...
Hey guys,
I'm curious to see if anyone can replicate the issue of "pre-load" ads causing the player to infinitely load and not play the video.
Examples -
1) Any video on ESPN. Links always change but there are tons just on their homepage. If you click play, the preview image will disappear...