There are three otherwise identical CNN feed sources

[stephendonner]

Description

There are three otherwise identical CNN feed sources

Steps to Reproduce

1. install 1.47.14
2. launch Brave
3. open brave://flags
4. set brave://flags/#brave-news-v2 to Enabled
5. click on Relaunch
6. open a new-tab page
7. click on Customize
8. click on Turn on Brave News
9. type cnn
10. look at the results

Actual result:

There are 3 non-descript, otherwise-identical CNN feed sources (in addition to CNN Brasil and CNN.co.jp, which are clearly marked)

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Expected result:

Either there should only be 1, or it should be possible to differentiate between them (tooltip or something?)

Reproduces how often:

100%

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.47.14 Chromium: 107.0.5304.62 (Official Build) nightly (x86_64)
Revision	1eec40d3a5764881c92085aaee66d25075c159aa-refs/branch-heads/5304@{#942}
OS	macOS Version 11.7.1 (Build 20G918)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? No
• 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?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

cc @rebron @mattmcalister @fallaciousreasoning @petemill

[fallaciousreasoning]

@petemill, maybe this has something to do with locales? I had a look at sources.global.json and there are three CNNs. One in en_US, one in en_CA and one in es_ES. The two sources in en_US and en_CA are identical except for channels.

[petemill]

I believe this is fixed in dev environment and maybe just not pushed to production yet

[kjozwiak]

The above requires 1.46.94 or higher for 1.46.x verification 👍

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED using

Brave	1.46.96 Chromium: 107.0.5304.91 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)
Revision	3d5948960d62418160796d5831a4d2d7d6c90fa8-refs/branch-heads/5304@{#1097}
OS	macOS Version 11.7.1 (Build 20G918)

Steps:

1. install 1.46.96
2. launch Brave
3. open brave://flags
4. set brave://flags/#brave-news-v2 to Enabled
5. clicked on Relaunch
6. opened a new-tab page
7. clicked on Customize
8. clicked on Turn on Brave News
9. typed cnn
10. looked at the results

Confirmed there was one fewer CNN.com feeds - we're left with the two valid ones: en_US and en_CA

1.46.96 - original issue

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1.47.14 - fixed

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