1120020 - Tracking Protection breaks video.pbs.org navigation (g-a breakage)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P5)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

STR:
1. Enable Tracking Protection
2. Load http://video.pbs.org/
3. Click on any of the video images

RESULT:
Nothing happens. If you disable Tracking Protection, then clicking the video images navigates to that video's page.

Comment 1

[[:mmc] Monica Chew (no longer reading bugmail)]

Thanks for reporting, Chris. I looked at this and it appears that the link works fine if you right-click, but they are doing something like overloading the onclick handler with code that depends on an analytics script that we are blocking, so left-click fails. I'm not sure what we can do in this case short of allowlisting the analytics scripts.

Comment 2

[Matt Wobensmith [:mwobensmith][:matt:]]

The resource at "http://ad.doubleclick.net/N6735/adj/n6735.pbs/video_main;sz=728x90;ord=6873921298648954?" was blocked because tracking protection is enabled. video.pbs.org
The resource at "http://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt_mobile.js" was blocked because tracking protection is enabled. video.pbs.org
ReferenceError: googletag is not defined video.pbs.org:201:16
The resource at "http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" was blocked because tracking protection is enabled. video.pbs.org
The resource at "http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js" was blocked because tracking protection is enabled. video.pbs.org
The resource at "http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b?c1=2&c2=3005420&ns__t=1431022019495&ns_c=UTF-8&c8=Watch%20PBS%20Online%20%7C%20PBS%20Video&c7=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.pbs.org%2F&c9=" was blocked because tracking protection is enabled. video.pbs.org

Comment 3

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Tested on Nightly FF 58.0.a1, enabled TP, viewed http://video.pbs.org/, clicked on video and was redirected to:
http://www.pbs.org/video/we-are-the-immigrants-9dwymg/

Comment 4

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Unable to reproduce this issue.

Chris - can you still reproduce?

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

WFM in Firefox 59 and Nightly 61.