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When I go to any Slashdot page, it doesn’t load content. Home page status blank, whole article pages have continuous “spinning wheel”.
@frogmaw I just tested on my Android and it wouldn’t load unless I disabled Shields. It only loaded if I turned Shields settings to Allow all trackers & ads or turn it off completely. I want to see if it is the same exact for you.
Confirmed! “Block trackers and ads”, when set to default, causes the problem.
I wish there were a way to override this on a per-site basis, like some other settings.
This does exist. The shields lion icon on the address bar. What you change there is for that site only, it’s not global.
But that aside, this is an issue that @fanboynz and others would look into and adjust code to try to make it compatible with the site while still blocking ads and trackers. It’s just them having to figure out what’s going on.