Reader View Displays Cookie & Privacy Garbage Instead of Article Content (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I've recently re-discovered firefox, and have fallen in love with Reader View, but I'm noticing a few problems. Most pages with articles will work just fine, but some refuse to allow reader view, and when you force those pages into reader view it doesn't display the appropriate content.

In today's issue, the website is just happy to allow me to view it in a readable format, but only if I want to read privacy and cookie garbage. How can I select the portion of the page I want to actually read, and tell firefox to ignore whatever bullshit I'm "supposed" to see or whatever?

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[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Reader View is working for me with that website. The only issue is that it writes out the phrase "link opens in New tab" after every link.

Do you have cookie settings or extensions that might be interfering with something?

[-] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think the only extension that does anything with a sites content is UBO. I could try that I guess? Edit: Goddamnit, yes that did it. I'm so not turning off my adblocker for their fluffpieces. Thanks.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

It's weird for me. I get the cookie bullshit in reader view, but if I refresh it then I see the article. This happens with uBO enabled or disabled, either way.

[-] SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was facing the same thing as OP. Based on some of the comments, I went into UBO and turned off Adguard Other Annoyances filter. And that worked.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Yay the astronaut sloth! I haven't seen this in quite some time online.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

Open the cookie page in reader view then refresh the page (mobile/desktop). It fixes it!

[-] PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I'm using Librewolf with UBO (with all filters on, including annoyances which are not on by default) and the site looks fine in reader mode and normally.

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