[Broken site] nytimes.com (#616) · Issues · Better / Content

[Broken site] nytimes.com

Domain: nytimes.com

Description of problem:

Videos won’t load inside articles. Unique to desktop and US geolocation. Seems to work fine once cached.

Also reported via app:

It blocks comments on articles.

LK: Reproduced on desktop. Comments load fine on iOS

A URL/page where problem is visible: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Reported via: email

On macOS

Reproduced on Mac with Better enabled? Yes

With Better:

Without Better:

On iOS

Reproduced on iOS with Better enabled? No

Console output

[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://js-sec.indexww.com/ht/p/183760-203795517182556.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 175)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://contextual.media.net/bidexchange.js?cid=8CU2553YN&amp;https=1 (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 182)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/amzn_ads.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 205)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://cdn.optimizely.com/public/3013110282/s/article_prod.js
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 153)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 3)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 5)
[Error] TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 's.cmd')
	defineAdSlots (main.js:2:19705)
	registerBatchRequest (main.js:2:21946)
	addPaidPostPlacements (main.js:3:2686)
	l (main.js:4:8635)
	trigger (main.js:4:8006)
	broadcast (main.js:6:17465)
	executeRules (main.js:1:17654)
	handleDomReady (main.js:1:14210)
	handleDomReady
	(anonymous function) (main.js:3:30590)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?tid=2619180518495&ov=%7B%22page_name%22%3A%22%22%2C%22page_category%22%3A%22education%2Fedlife%22%7D&ad=%7B%22loc%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html%3Fhp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dsecond-column-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news%22%2C%22ref%22%3A%22%22%2C%22if%22%3Afalse%2C%22sh%22%3A800%2C%22sw%22%3A1280%7D&cb=1501666791213 (core.js, line 1)
[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 (HTTP/2.0 401) (onboarding, line 0)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://js-sec.indexww.com/um/ixmatch.html (main.js, line 2)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://cdn.krxd.net/controltag/HrUwtkcl.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 1)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js (tagx.nytimes.com, line 858)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://z.moatads.com/googleessencenyt485873431/moatcontent.js?firstimp_bsg=1&loyalty_bsg=1&avgsestime_bsg=undefined&referral_bsg= (tagx.nytimes.com, line 1142)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion_async.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 3)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://s.yimg.com/wi/ytc.js (tagx.nytimes.com, line 2097)
[Error] TypeError: window.google_trackConversion is not a function. (In 'window.google_trackConversion', 'window.google_trackConversion' is undefined)
	(anonymous function) (tagx.nytimes.com:2016)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:18252)
	e (tagx-simple.min.js:3:31865)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4)
	L (tagx-simple.min.js:4:4262)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:5072)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:8797)
	g (tagx-simple.min.js:3:672)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:3:2519)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:3:1167)
	onerror (tagx-simple.min.js:3:1734)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://pnytimes.chartbeat.net/ping?h=nytimes.com&p=nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html&u=BhjxWVCM9VfIDrvGoO&d=nytimes.com&g=16698&g0=U.S.%2CEducation%2Ceducation_desk&g1=LIZETTE%20ALVAREZ&n=1&f=00001&c=0&x=0&m=0&y=9956&o=1265&w=688&j=45&R=1&W=0&I=0&E=0&e=0&r=&b=977&t=CUceCJfYY_3BZ39uctS2CsD3KnmF&V=93&i=Where%20All%20the%20School%E2%80%99s%20a%20Stage%2C%20and%20the%20List%20of%20Success%20Stories%20Is%20Long&tz=-120&sn=1&EE=0&sv=CXzowAKk82PCuDzDlkU5IZB3tf1Y&_ (chartbeat.js, line 62)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?event=pagevisit&ed=%7B%22ad%22%3A1%2C%22articleId%22%3A%22100000005312978%22%2C%22fbk%22%3A%22%22%2C%22pScore%22%3A%22%22%2C%22aScore%22%3A%22%22%2C%22sourceApp%22%3A%22nyt-v5%22%2C%22watSegs%22%3A%22%22%2C%22fbBrowser%22%3Afalse%2C%22content_ids%22%3A%5B3286715153%5D%2C%22content_type%22%3A%22product%22%2C%22content_category%22%3A%22education%2Fedlife%22%2C%22userAgent%22%3A%22Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Macintosh%3B%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010_12_6)%20AppleWebKit%2F603.3.8%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%20Version%2F10.1.2%20Safari%2F603.3.8%22%2C%22value%22%3A0%2C%22currency%22%3A%22USD%22%7D&tid=2619180518495&ad=%7B%22loc%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html%3Fhp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dsecond-column-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news%22%2C%22ref%22%3A%22%22%2C%22if%22%3Afalse%2C%22sh%22%3A800%2C%22sw%22%3A1280%7D&cb=1501666792211 (core.js, line 1)
[Log] Global tag is present, exiting ... (tagx.nytimes.com, line 1045, x2)
> Selected Element
< <div id="page" class="page">…</div>

**Domain:** nytimes.com

**Description of problem:**

> Videos won’t load inside articles. Unique to desktop and US geolocation. Seems to work fine once cached.

Also reported via app:

> It blocks comments on articles.

LK: Reproduced on desktop. Comments load fine on iOS

**A URL/page where problem is visible:** https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

**Reported via:** email

## On macOS

**Reproduced on Mac with Better enabled?** Yes

With Better:

![Screen_Shot_2017-08-02_at_11.34.46](/uploads/78bdd55e105786ea3909141a97b64982/Screen_Shot_2017-08-02_at_11.34.46.png)

Without Better:

![Screen_Shot_2017-08-02_at_11.35.05](/uploads/9c99a145fd0b0e76ed7158be8b19c29f/Screen_Shot_2017-08-02_at_11.35.05.png)

## On iOS

**Reproduced on iOS with Better enabled?** No

**Console output**

```
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://js-sec.indexww.com/ht/p/183760-203795517182556.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 175)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://contextual.media.net/bidexchange.js?cid=8CU2553YN&amp;https=1 (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 182)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/amzn_ads.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 205)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://cdn.optimizely.com/public/3013110282/s/article_prod.js
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 153)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 3)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 5)
[Error] TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 's.cmd')
	defineAdSlots (main.js:2:19705)
	registerBatchRequest (main.js:2:21946)
	addPaidPostPlacements (main.js:3:2686)
	l (main.js:4:8635)
	trigger (main.js:4:8006)
	broadcast (main.js:6:17465)
	executeRules (main.js:1:17654)
	handleDomReady (main.js:1:14210)
	handleDomReady
	(anonymous function) (main.js:3:30590)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?tid=2619180518495&ov=%7B%22page_name%22%3A%22%22%2C%22page_category%22%3A%22education%2Fedlife%22%7D&ad=%7B%22loc%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html%3Fhp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dsecond-column-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news%22%2C%22ref%22%3A%22%22%2C%22if%22%3Afalse%2C%22sh%22%3A800%2C%22sw%22%3A1280%7D&cb=1501666791213 (core.js, line 1)
[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 (HTTP/2.0 401) (onboarding, line 0)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://js-sec.indexww.com/um/ixmatch.html (main.js, line 2)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://cdn.krxd.net/controltag/HrUwtkcl.js (public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html, line 1)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js (tagx.nytimes.com, line 858)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://z.moatads.com/googleessencenyt485873431/moatcontent.js?firstimp_bsg=1&loyalty_bsg=1&avgsestime_bsg=undefined&referral_bsg= (tagx.nytimes.com, line 1142)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion_async.js (tagx-simple.min.js, line 3)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://s.yimg.com/wi/ytc.js (tagx.nytimes.com, line 2097)
[Error] TypeError: window.google_trackConversion is not a function. (In 'window.google_trackConversion', 'window.google_trackConversion' is undefined)
	(anonymous function) (tagx.nytimes.com:2016)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:18252)
	e (tagx-simple.min.js:3:31865)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4)
	L (tagx-simple.min.js:4:4262)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:5072)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:4:8797)
	g (tagx-simple.min.js:3:672)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:3:2519)
	(anonymous function) (tagx-simple.min.js:3:1167)
	onerror (tagx-simple.min.js:3:1734)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://pnytimes.chartbeat.net/ping?h=nytimes.com&p=nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html&u=BhjxWVCM9VfIDrvGoO&d=nytimes.com&g=16698&g0=U.S.%2CEducation%2Ceducation_desk&g1=LIZETTE%20ALVAREZ&n=1&f=00001&c=0&x=0&m=0&y=9956&o=1265&w=688&j=45&R=1&W=0&I=0&E=0&e=0&r=&b=977&t=CUceCJfYY_3BZ39uctS2CsD3KnmF&V=93&i=Where%20All%20the%20School%E2%80%99s%20a%20Stage%2C%20and%20the%20List%20of%20Success%20Stories%20Is%20Long&tz=-120&sn=1&EE=0&sv=CXzowAKk82PCuDzDlkU5IZB3tf1Y&_ (chartbeat.js, line 62)
[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/education/edlife/public-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news from loading a resource from https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?event=pagevisit&ed=%7B%22ad%22%3A1%2C%22articleId%22%3A%22100000005312978%22%2C%22fbk%22%3A%22%22%2C%22pScore%22%3A%22%22%2C%22aScore%22%3A%22%22%2C%22sourceApp%22%3A%22nyt-v5%22%2C%22watSegs%22%3A%22%22%2C%22fbBrowser%22%3Afalse%2C%22content_ids%22%3A%5B3286715153%5D%2C%22content_type%22%3A%22product%22%2C%22content_category%22%3A%22education%2Fedlife%22%2C%22userAgent%22%3A%22Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Macintosh%3B%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010_12_6)%20AppleWebKit%2F603.3.8%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%20Version%2F10.1.2%20Safari%2F603.3.8%22%2C%22value%22%3A0%2C%22currency%22%3A%22USD%22%7D&tid=2619180518495&ad=%7B%22loc%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Feducation%2Fedlife%2Fpublic-schools-new-world-school-arts-miami.html%3Fhp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dsecond-column-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news%22%2C%22ref%22%3A%22%22%2C%22if%22%3Afalse%2C%22sh%22%3A800%2C%22sw%22%3A1280%7D&cb=1501666792211 (core.js, line 1)
[Log] Global tag is present, exiting ... (tagx.nytimes.com, line 1045, x2)
> Selected Element
< <div id="page" class="page">…</div>
```

Edited Aug 23, 2017 by Laura Kalbag