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Promoted news card loads the landing page rather than what its linked to

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Description

Promoted news card loads the landing page rather than what its linked to

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Enable Brave News
  2. Scroll down to promoted content
  3. Mouse over the promoted text shows it as a link to https://brave.com/brave-today
  4. Click on promoted button, loads the actual card link doesn’t load what its linked to
  5. Right click on the Promoted button and open link in a new tab, loads https://brave.com/brave-news

Actual result:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17010094/130182632-3617dd8f-8665-41e7-9d7b-59b927bf10d7.mp4

Expected result:

Clicking promoted news button should load https://brave.com/brave-news and also update the hard-coded link

Reproduces how often:

Easy

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 1.28.106 Chromium: 92.0.4515.159 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 0185b8a19c88c5dfd3e6c0da6686d799e9bc3b52-refs/branch-heads/4515@{#2052}
OS Linux

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? NA
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? NA
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? NA

Miscellaneous Information:

cc: @petemill @simonhong

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:16 (1 by maintainers)

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abhiklodhcommented, Aug 23, 2021

@bsclifton @srirambv Please confirm if this is indeed the expected behaviour according to the issue.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8018018/130492673-7c443fc0-fa9f-475d-ade5-0d7c63f406b0.mp4

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abhiklodhcommented, Aug 20, 2021

Can I give this a try? I think the fix should be relatively straightforward but making sure nothing else breaks is trickier.

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