Reader failing on newsmemory page

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
content

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure on the original East Bay Times URL and its NewsMemory iframe URL, then trace the Reader view activation path for both pages. Done means Reader view activates and extracts the news content from each URL without failing.

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Description

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

Reader view is failing to activate on the URL https://enewspaper.eastbaytimes.com/?publink=1281873b4_1348358

The news contents of that page are from an iframe, at https://eastbaytimes-ca.newsmemory.com/?publink=1281873b4_1348358&vanity=

Reader view is not activating on both the original page and the iframe page.

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