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All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by zzz242 » 2022-11-01, 11:43

An example of this error can be found at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960.

Here is the output from the Browser Console:

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TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
chartbeat_video.js:23:29
TypeError: this.selector is null[Learn More]  
otBannerSdk.js:7:52240
TypeError: h.body is null[Learn More]  
hotjar-309218.js:3:2846
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
chartbeat_video.js:23:29
🚀 container.buildInfo.environment is deprecated.Please use `container.environment.stage` instead  
launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:18308
CBV Strategies undefined  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1901:5
🚀 container.buildInfo.environment is deprecated.Please use `container.environment.stage` instead  
launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:18308
scc "https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-8374335"  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:5728:5
$t error - Cant execute callback for: dtm_pageView. appendFacebookTrackingPixel@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2419:5
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2460:9
trigger@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:1889
n/n.track@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:3662
n@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:81
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:6880:3
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:6843:2
script/e.exports@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:2:1841
O/<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:17888
be/</</<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:24594
be/</<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:24566
  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:302
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1931:14
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:4011:9
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:5741:5
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1931:14
🐛 [safeNative] Unable to access an IFrame context, using default constructor.  
modules.5a17f10e21dd3fd3b841.js:1:9206
Journey already dismissed. undefined  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2677:18
The NBC News home page does not have this problem.

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-11-01, 12:17

Seems to work just fine for me
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by THX-1139 » 2022-11-01, 12:56

I can also confirm works just fine for me :)...
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Night Wing » 2022-11-01, 13:07

Well, after clicking on the link the OP provided, the page does "not" render for me at all. All I get is a blank white page. I even disabled (turned off) uBlock Origin to see if that would help and "no joy".

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by therube » 2022-11-01, 16:57

Hmm... I got a blank page too, 31.2.0.

Let me pull down today's...

Ditto.
(So it is not an issue specific to today's release.)

Appears to be "stuck" on, https://jssdks.mparticle.com/v3/JS/65ea ... 799/events.

Refresh Page.
No longer "stuck", but still blank.


And I'll suppose these will be much the same as posted above:

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TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
chartbeat_video.js:23:29
TypeError: this.selector is null[Learn More]  
otBannerSdk.js:7:52240
TypeError: h.body is null[Learn More]  
hotjar-309218.js:3:2846
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
chartbeat_video.js:23:29
🚀 container.buildInfo.environment is deprecated.Please use `container.environment.stage` instead  
launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:18308
CBV Strategies undefined  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1901:5
🚀 container.buildInfo.environment is deprecated.Please use `container.environment.stage` instead  
launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:18308
scc "https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-8374335"  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:5728:5
$t error - Cant execute callback for: dtm_pageView. appendFacebookTrackingPixel@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2419:5
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2460:9
trigger@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:1889
n/n.track@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:3662
n@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:81
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:6880:3
@https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:6843:2
script/e.exports@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:2:1841
O/<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:17888
be/</</<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:24594
be/</<@https://assets.adobedtm.com/launch-EN03682f66064449c8b87d78eae3e2fc57.min.js:19:24566
  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:123:302
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1931:14
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:4011:9
TypeError: document.body is null[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:5741:5
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:1931:14
🐛 [safeNative] Unable to access an IFrame context, using default constructor.  
modules.cb462d06d2679bf31ed1.js:1:9206
Journey already dismissed. undefined  
arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960:2677:18
(This is with a brand new Profile.)


https://www.nbcnews.com/ does display as expected.
But 6 links opened from that page all come up blank.

Spoofing the UA (to FF 108.0) did not help.
Heh!
I put in a spoof for msn.com instead of nbcnews.com ;-) ...

Still no help.
general.useragent.override.nbcnews.com;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Installing uBlock Origin did not help.
Installing some verboten extension (that blocked JavaScript), then does display the page.

One of these, most likely is the breaker:
+adobedtm.com
+nbcnews.com

Oh, I suppose then it's going to be adobetm.com.

adobetm.com will not always turn up.
But when it does, & when it is allowed (JavaScript), the page goes blank.

In uBlock Origin, I added a filter & got things working:

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||assets.adobedtm.com^$script,domain=www.nbcnews.com,important
(Now I know nothing of uBO filtering, but it worked.)

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by gepus » 2022-11-01, 20:15

Blank page here too.
Tested with 31.3.0.1 and 31.3.1 on fresh profiles.

(BTW, miserable site - lots of ads and tracking)

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Night Wing » 2022-11-01, 20:35

gepus wrote:
2022-11-01, 20:15
(BTW, miserable site - lots of ads and tracking)
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And advertisers wonder why computer users use adblockers. :x
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-11-02, 00:38

Well, maybe I don't have an issue because my ABL was active when I tested that may have blocked the offending script with the filter subscriptions I use.
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by _yuyu_ » 2022-11-02, 02:34

For me the contents show for half a second and then the page goes blank.
If I block

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then it loads not blank.
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by zzz242 » 2022-11-02, 07:24

I first found this problem on my main PM installation, and verified that it wasn't an extension problem by testing it on a clean installation I have for testing, where it still failed.

After the discussion here, I went back to my main installation, where I run uBlock Origin. I blocked adobetm.com locally for nbcnews.com, and that fixed the problem.

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by moonbat » 2022-11-02, 07:57

zzz242 wrote:
2022-11-02, 07:24
I blocked adobetm.com locally
You can block it globally, it's a tracker and does nothing to enhance your webpage (the opposite, in fact).
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by gepus » 2022-11-02, 13:04

By blocking the script at least the symptom of the issue gets cured.
What I mean is that the site shouldn't go blank just because of a script (which in this case happens to be a tracking script and can be blocked).

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by zzz242 » 2022-11-02, 13:42

gepus wrote:
2022-11-02, 13:04
By blocking the script at least the symptom of the issue gets cured.
What I mean is that the site shouldn't go blank just because of a script (which in this case happens to be a tracking script and can be blocked).
I agree completely, however, I am very grateful for the fix that lets me see the page now.

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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-11-02, 16:01

gepus wrote:
2022-11-02, 13:04
What I mean is that the site shouldn't go blank just because of a script
Oh I agree. especially a tag script from a third party tracker should not in any way interfere with the content... But it does.
My educated guess is that it tries to use shadow DOM to hide itself, but since that is part of (disabled) WebComponents in Pale Moon, it ends up actually hiding the content, instead.
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Re: All NBC News stories display a blank page

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2022-11-03, 15:13

I don't get a blank page (presumably due to my using ABL) - but the video will not play for me. Can't test in Safe-Mode because then a blank page gets rendered (presumably because in Safe-Mode the ABL add-on is not active) - sort of a catch-22.
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nbcnews.com article URLS return blank page

Unread post by Walter Dnes » 2022-11-13, 06:07

Operating system: Gentoo Linux 64-bit
Browser version: 31.3.1
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: 64 (Standard downloaded binary from palemoon.org; NOT homebrew)
Problem URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tw ... -rcna56920 (example URL)
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Installed add-ons: none
Installed plugins: (about:plugins): none

Some more details. The main page https://www.nbcnews.com/ works. But *ANY* deeper URL pointing at a specific article returns a blank page with the article title on the window border. I've tried a brand new profile and safe mode; did not help. nbcnews.com deeper URLs work fine with Google-Chrome for linux.
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Re: nbcnews.com article URLS return blank page

Unread post by moonbat » 2022-11-13, 08:11

Works fine here, something is fucked with your setup that we can't figure out because you haven't provided console output, preferably in code (</> button) and not show/hide tags.
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Re: nbcnews.com article URLS return blank page

Unread post by gepus » 2022-11-13, 08:26

moonbat wrote:
2022-11-13, 08:11
Works fine here, ...
Did you test with a fresh profile? I'm asking because it doesn't work for me either.

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This belongs to the "Web Compatibility Support" forum.

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Re: nbcnews.com article URLS return blank page

Unread post by moonbat » 2022-11-13, 09:51

It's something in a third party script that my adblocker prevents from loading. Again, a console output at the very first would've helped, and Walter isn't exactly a newbie here to not know that we aren't mind readers here to figure out what's wrong without providing required information. How anyone can use the net without a properly configured adblocker using filter lists is beyond me.
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Re: nbcnews.com article URLS return blank page

Unread post by gepus » 2022-11-13, 10:09

Blocking a script is a work around not the cure. The site should render without blocking scripts.

(BTW, the site renders fine with a fork based on Firefox 56.)

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