beforeitsnews.com: breakage

[FewThereBe]

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URL address of the web page

https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2024/04/solar-eclipses-great-signs-in-the-heaven-x-marks-the-spot-twice-in-ten-years-2551084.html

Category

breakage

Description

With uBO enabled, the "Now" counter number that is supposed to appear for each BeforeItsNews story is blanked out/it does not show up.

The "Now" counter is supposed to be a number, giving how many people are currently viewing the particular story.

There are three other numbers/counters in the "counter box" for each story that do appear correctly with uBO enabled.

It is just the one labeled "Now" that does not show up. It is blank.

And it happens on all of the BeforeItsNews stories that I have tried.

When I disable uBO, the "Now" number count re-appears correctly.

I just moved from Brave browser to Firefox, and added uBO for my ad blocker, so this is a new problem for me.

Thank you for any help.

Other extensions used

I currently use three others in addition to uBO: Brave Search, LastPass, and Weather extensions.

I disabled all of the extensions other than uBO, as directed for troubleshooting, and the problem at BeforeItsNews.com still persisted.

Screenshot(s)

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Configuration

```yaml uBlock Origin: 1.56.0 Firefox: 115 filterset (summary): network: 128205 cosmetic: 45751 scriptlet: 18962 html: 1730 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): default: user-filters: 0-0, never ublock-filters: 37466-138, 1h.54m Δ ublock-badware: 8131-15, 1h.54m Δ ublock-privacy: 777-0, 1h.54m Δ ublock-unbreak: 2297-19, 1h.54m Δ ublock-quick-fixes: 214-0, 1h.54m Δ easylist: 84558-763, 1h.54m Δ easyprivacy: 50425-4, 1h.54m Δ urlhaus-1: 8920-5, now plowe-0: 3764-809, now filterset (user): [empty] userSettings: [none] hiddenSettings: [none] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 1380 ms (selfie) maxAssetCacheWait: 494 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB popupPanel: blocked: 55 network: beforeitsnews.com: 6 d2znr2yi078d75.cloudfront.net: 1 doubleclick.net: 6 google.com: 8 googletagmanager.com: 1 mgid.com: 12 nerangee.com: 2 sharethis.com: 1 translate.googleapis.com: 2 youtube.com: 16 extended: ##[src*="/banner"] ##.rotating_text_link ##[href*="hop.clickbank.net"] ##[href^="https://tinyurl.com/"] ##[id^="banners_"] ##div[id*="ScriptRoot"] ##+js(trusted-replace-node-text, script, /^(\(function serverCon… ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.playerConfig.ssapCon… ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.streamingData.server… ##+js(json-prune, playerResponse.playerConfig.ssapConfig playerR… ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.playerAds, undefined… ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements, undefi… ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.adSlots, undefined) ##+js(set-constant, playerResponse.adPlacements, undefined) ##+js(set-constant, rwt, noopFunc) ```

[stephenhawk8054]

It's the website tracker https://ajax.beforeitsnews.com/core/ajax/counter/count.php

You can add this as your custom filter

@@||ajax.beforeitsnews.com/core/ajax/counter/count.php$xhr,1p

[FewThereBe]

That worked! Thank you! God bless!

[stephenhawk8054]

Hmm... The site sends user's UUID in the request data in the XHR connection. I'm not sure if it should be unblocked.

[FewThereBe]

I'm not exactly sure what that means (or the ramifications; I'm no expert at this, just an end-uesr), but I need to see that real-time counter number. It is an important metric for monitoring story interest in real-time. On Thursday, April 4th, 2024 at 5:35 PM, stephenhawk8054 @.***> wrote:

Hmm... The site sends user's UUID in the request data in the XHR connection. I'm not sure if it should be unblocked.

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[stephenhawk8054]

You can use the above filter I gave.

I'm talking about that connection in general.