Spot.im on aol.com

[lukemulks]

• Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one? Yes

• Describe the issue you encountered: Spot.im comments initially load on Brave but show more, load more replies and Like button functionality does not work on aol.com

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): global

• Brave Version (revision SHA): 36ae2ec

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/26/president-trump-us-to-bar-transgender-persons-from-any-capacity-military-service/23048969/
  2. Scroll to the comments section toward the bottom of the article
  3. Try to click on the show more, load more or like buttons.

• Actual result: Highlighted buttons on Windows are not functional.

Same result on macOS:

• Expected result: Spot.im comment features function properly, expanding when needed and allowing for engagement.

• Will the steps above reproduce in a fresh profile? If not what other info can be added? Yes.

• Is this an issue in the currently released version? Yes.

• Can this issue be consistently reproduced? Yes

• Extra QA steps: 1. 2. 3.

Note this is probably something similar to what we encounter with Disqus, when ad features are enabled by the publisher.

We should:

• Determine if we're legitimately blocking requests that pass user data.
• If the requests that are blocked are not passing user data, we could make an exception for spot.im
• Identify the specific request being blocked and test the exception.

[diracdeltas]

the issue is that spot.im as a third-party cannot access localStorage so it errors when the 'load more' button is clicked. changing to 'allow all cookies' fixes the issue

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https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1991

[pes10k]

The linked to page in the issue no longer demonstrates the issue in any browser since the chat widget has been removed. So I think the issue should be closed, or at the least, some new site found that demonstrates the problem