I had to turn off duckduckgo’s thing on FF as well. Not sure what else you might have on Safari. I made a gif out of it and put it here. That site is riddled with ads that play interspersed, every second or two. It’s absurdly bad. Any ad popping up in situations like that makes me hate the company almost immediately.
I used with FF + ublock. I have Chrome w/o ublock and trying to watch the clip was a disaster.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/katie-britt-jack-smith-eric-schmitt-hearing-b3058627.html
Safari with ublockorigin lite and unable to see a video. There is a black box at the top I am guessing is the video frame.
I had to turn off duckduckgo’s thing on FF as well. Not sure what else you might have on Safari. I made a gif out of it and put it here. That site is riddled with ads that play interspersed, every second or two. It’s absurdly bad. Any ad popping up in situations like that makes me hate the company almost immediately.
I turned off all my content blocking just to see what I could see, and it never appeared.