Comments in Wall Street Journal
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At the end of many Wall Street Journal website articles there is a comment section but in Vivalidi v 5.3.2679.70 on Mac those comments aren't shown. The "Show Comments" bar is shown but clicking on it does not show anything and the bar changes to "Hide Comments".
Works fine in Firefox, Safari, and Brave. Also seems to work fine at other sites that have comments.
Anyone else having this issue?
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@DrWho , try it on a Vivaldi guest profile, many comment parts of news papers use different tracking techniques for their visitors and are blocked by the Vivaldi blocker or the ad and trackeblocker you use. This may be the cause.
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Thanks. I should have included that I was signed in to my Wall Street account and that I have ad blocker turned off for this site.
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@DrWho Could you find an article on WSJ with comments that does not require a subscription?
Are you blocking 3rd-party cookies?
Try disabling all your extensions.
Try in a clean profile.
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@Pathduck. I think I may have found a solution. I have Block Tracker and Ads checked but when I change to No Block the comments show. This must have something to do with the Vivaldi settings.
I logged out and could see the comments in
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-taiwan-life-goes-on-under-barrel-of-chinas-gun-11659785079Note that I had to change to no Blocking to see them.
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@DrWho I need a subscription to read that article.
If turning off the ad/tracker-blocker lets the comments show I guess one of the blocker rules interferes with the comments section. Your options are then: View comments or view ads I guess
You could try enabling only the tracker blocker for the site.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/tracking-and-ad-blocking/#Blocking_per_siteTroubleshooting which block rule from which list is causing it is tricky. First you have to figure out which list is causing it, then what specific rule. Then you have to make a bug report to the creators of the blocklist. These are generally a community effort, most of them use Github for reporting issues.
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@Pathduck Thanks for checking. I guess they must read an old cookie even though I'm showing logged out.
Anyway, I've turned on ad block with an extension and changed Vivaldi to No Block and now I can read comments.
It irritates me no end that they have the gal to show adds to a paid subscriber.
I'm on a special monthly rate right now but that will end soon as will my subscription to WSJ. It definitely is not worth $39/month to me under any conditions.
Edit. When I cancelled (via phone) they offered a $19/mo for a limited time. Still cancelled.
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I'm having the same problems. I use ad blockers in Safari and the Opinion menu on the WSJ home page and the comment sections in articles work just fine. I switched to Vivaldi because of persistent freezing problems with Safari, but I shouldn't have to spend my time on work-arounds to get Vivaldi to display websites properly. Right now Vivaldi is my default browser, but I'm not sure that will remain the case much longer.
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@keithrt Update: After reading through more comments I added Ad Block and turned off Vivaldi's internal blocking feature and the WSJ now loads and displays properly. Thanks, DrWho.
