1778307 - The article gets removed on coindesk.com with ETP set to Strict

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[Calin Tanase]

Attachment: coindesk.png

Environment:
Operating system: Android 11 (ONEPLUS A6000)
Firefox version: Nightly 104.0a1-20220705095904

Preconditions:
ETP set to STRICT
Clean profile

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/07/05/celsius-repays-183m-on-defi-exchange-maker-gets-back-collateral-blockchain-data-shows/
2. Observe the page

Expected Behavior:
The page loads the article correctly.

Actual Behavior:
The article gets removed from the page, only the trending articles and the footer is visible.

Notes:

1. Screenshot provided
2. Not reproducible with Standard ETP
3. Same results in a Private Window

Comment 1

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

This is happening after bug 1775099. That is, it's related to our shim for Google Publisher Tags. It turns out that when defineSlot is called on an already-existing slot, we should return that already-existing slot rather than undefined. I'll make a patch for this ASAP.

Comment 2

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

The fix for this landed as part of the patch in bug 1778049.