Since a couple of weeks I see a cookie banner presented in the slashdot feed. I don‘t think I have ever seen something like that in an RSS feed before and I‘m unsure if this is a bug or if NNW can do something about it. Because it somehow interrupts the flow. 
The feed URL: Slashdot
Looks like it’s loading the actual website, probably in an iframe
Which version of NetNewsWire are you using? In NetNewsWire 7.1.3 we added some code to prevent this from Slashdot.
(It’s possible that they’ve changed their HTML so that our fix no longer works, of course.)
It‘s the current Testflight Build 7210. I noticed that the message doesn‘t pop up on every new article. Kind of odd.
We could look at the feed and find out what’s triggering this — but we already did that once, which means we’d probably have to keep doing this.
Instead, my plan is to disable JavaScript for the Slashdot feed. That should do it.
(Note: you can disable JavaScript right now for all feeds in NetNewsWire’s settings. My plan is to just always disable it for Slashdot, no matter what settings say.)
Thanks Brent, that’s a great hint. I have deactivated Javascript on all my devices in NNW now. I’m not expecting to need that at all. If I need to see an embedded thing, I can just switch to Safari. Thanks again.
I disabled JavaScript a while ago when a blogger’s Google Ads overlay creeped into their RSS feed. I didn’t know NNW would enable JavaScript by default and thought that JS is never needed for any feed that I subscribe to.
It’s been fine since.
