On Saturday 24 August 2019 16:18:30 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 01:10:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 12:43:39 Tixy wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-direct > > > >or-a > > > > > > > > > >rrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > > > > > > > > > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. > > > > > > > > > > Looks like abcnews4.com does everything with javascript. You > > > > > got > > > > > > > > that > > > > > > > > > disabled or blocked with a plugin? > > > > > > > > IDK, how do I check? > > > > > > Well, you'd know if you'd installed a specific plugin like > > > NoScript, > > > > Stuff like noscript is installed but all that is disabled > > Noscript might have become active again if you updated to > Debian 10 buster recently. > Sorry, no. Stretch yet. > I installed noscript many years ago and tried it out but I guess back > then it felt a little annoying to have to explicitly allow all the > various pages so I allowed javascript by default. (i.e. noscript > stayed installed but wasn't doing anything.) A few weeks ago I > finally updated to buster and I noticed that it had gone back to > blocking javascript by default. Since then I've been trying the > block-by-default setup and I like it so I've kept it like that. > > So with noscript active, when I try the site you mention, all I get is > also a blank page. > > On the same line with my address bar, to the right, there is an icon > for noscript, showing that it is blocking some sites. By clicking on > that icon, I can try to temporarily or permanently allow code from any > of those sites. Then I reload the page. > > For your blank site, I had to allow abc4news.com and > sinclairstoryline.com. Those two were enough for the story to appear > (though I allow some sites by default, so I am not sure if there is > something else you need to allow). > > Of course, when selectively allowing only an incomplete subset of the > javascript, one can never be sure if there is more "meaningful/useful > content" on the page that you don't see but are not aware of missing. > But in this case the story looks like it's there and even has a > picture, so I assume the rest of the javascript will not add content > to this news item.
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