engadget.com error (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff)

[sciuro]

Using 33.9.0.1 (64bit Win11 24h2) and get engadget.com error (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff).
Can not check any feed from https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
Any click on the engadget.com site give the same error related to mismatches of mime types (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff).
Also, there is a warning like "use of removeAttributeNode() is discouraged, use the removeAttribute() instead."

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The resource from “https://www.engadget.com/_gdgt/_next/static/css/667411927ccc7a6b.css” was blocked due to MIME type mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff).  
not-found
Use of removeAttributeNode() is deprecated. Use removeAttribute() instead.

[jobbautista9]

I think the website is forcing a 404 on any JS error for whatever reason... And TransformStream not being defined (which you can see if you enable persistent logs in devtools) resulting in a ReferenceError is triggering it.

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As a workaround you can add the following filter to your content blocker like uBlock Origin:

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||www.engadget.com/_next/static/chunks/app/global-error-*.js$script,first-party

That should prevent the forced 404 caused by that offending script. Another alternative is to disable JavaScript just for that site.

[sciuro]

Solved it with Toggle JavaScript extension, thank you.