Content blocker breaks Reddit on iOS

word8342

Reddit is not scrollable when not logged in. Probably related to ad blocking a popup scroll-blocking element. Scroll does work after logging in.

Steps to reproduce:

Close tabs & clear data
Enable ad blocking
Open https://www.reddit.com
Attempt to scroll the webpage

Expected behavior:
Webpage is scrollable

Actual behavior:
Webpage is NOT scrollable

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion iOS 1.3.3 (4)
iOS 17.0.2 (21A350)
iPhone 15 pro

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Vlad

word8342 Can you try disabling content blocker on Reddit?

word8342

Vlad The webpage displays as shown in the photo with the content blocker disabled. The website is not scrollable. After clicking “continue”, the website becomes scrollable.

Vlad

word8342 Can you compare that behavior to Safari?

word8342

Vlad Safari default config: expected behavior. Safari with adblock (Wipr) enabled: same behavior as reported issue.

Are you unable to reproduce the behavior?

Vlad

word8342 So it is clearly being caused by the content blocker. The solution would be to disable the content blocker just for reddit?

word8342

I don’t think I’d call that a solution, since ads are then displayed on the webpage.

I’d suggest either:

Update the blocklist so that either the issue is fixed, or so that the “See Reddit in…” element is not blocked (not sure if this is in the scope of the project); or
Allow users to whitelist elements

drfierce

What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
Loving Orion so far but have one persistent issue keeping it from becoming my primary browser on my phone.

When I navigage to a Reddit page (common with the Forums Lens) I can't navigate the screen (scroll) or press any links / buttons on the page. Seems to be consistent but isolated to Reddit only

App version: 1.3.4 (2) (WebKit 8616.1.27.10.16)
System version: 17.0.3
Device type: ?unrecognized?
Native bounds: (1179.0, 2556.0)
Scale: 3.0
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Private tabs: 0/0/0/(

What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
Normal Web behavior-- scrolling, pressing links, etc.

What version of Orion are you running?
App version: 1.3.4 (2) (WebKit 8616.1.27.10.16)

TitaniumOrigami

What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
Whenever I go on Reddit using the Orion browser, I can not scroll down, click on links, or interface with anything except the back button (on the browser) to go back to my search. Using iphone 14 and an ipad mini gen 5 I believe.

What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
To be able to scroll though the reddit page and click on links posted by users.

What version of Orion are you running?
1.3.4 (2)

laiz

This is caused by Orion's content blocker blocking the reddit cookie popup.
You can use reddit on iOS by temporarily disabling the content blocker, accepting the cookies, and then enabling it again.
A future update to Orion iOS should make the content blocker slightly less aggressive towards cookie banners as those sadly often break sites.

impart0085

Thanks for the information @laiz

Janjao

What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
every reddit page i access trough orion on ios i cannot scroll down the page.

What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
page scroll should function properly

What version of Orion are you running?
1.3.4

Emwi

What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
On Orion browser on my iPhone 12 Pro, there are some sites that loads at first glance, but then are completely frozen. I cannot scroll or interact with the sites at all and have to back out. Reddit.com is one such site that I have to change browser to use.

What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
I would be able to interact with the site as usual.

What version of Orion are you running?
1.3.4

mig4ng

I had similar problems with clicking the login button on reddit and stuff. Not entirely sure what is happening. But some of the stuff also happens on Firefox, but surprisingly doesn't on Safari. Very strange. If I can reproduce I will add info.