The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support.

Apparently they decided to "update" their video format or something, and my old Firefox doesn't support it.

That’s as cheap as I know of.

I dont get any malware from it at all. What makes you say it has malware?

All I see is a black mini-screen with "click to play the live stream", but it doesn't respond to any controls.

I'm trying to retire this old computer (and OS) but swapping disk partitions between machines is going to take a while. I have multiple partitions on each disk and older/newer OSs on different partitions. (Plus two of them are in all-in-ones).

and it doesn't work in Safari either.

There have been some subtle changes to how https://livenewschat.eu/msnbc-live-stream/ works.

You have to scroll down to the small screen, past a blank area of the page, click on the arrow, and then enlarge it to full screen. Seems like the number of intrusive ads have increased.

Often, there will be a condensed version, without the ads, posted later on YouTube.

And the "picture in picture" option puts a little screen in the corner so I can continue browsing, which is just the way I like!

Thanks, jmbar2 ! I suspect you didn't really do anything either , but if you hadn't responded I wouldn't have tried again!

I know what you mean about the intrusive ads, but if you full screen it, don't those ads disappear?

I rebooted by fiberoptic modem to see if that was the problem; it seems a little faster but that's all.

We didn’t upgrade so we get ads, but it has a lot of the major channels including MS NOW.

However, it generally works as you describe: "a site that lets you watch streaming shows at your computer after you log into your account"

You can watch ABC with their live streaming service, as well as any other network, like NBC, CBS, FX, etc.They offer live streaming, as well as their own shows, such as The Handmaid's Tale.

All the consolidations and reshufflings have made the media landscape downright confusing. Treacherous, too.

But now they are part of Disney. There's a monthly (or yearly) fee. I think you could probably also get MSNow on your TV with YouTube's TV streaming service. There are several similar options (like Sling) that will work on your TV if it is a smart TV. You may also need a Roku or FireStick. We have a nice Sony smart TV, but we use a Roku for streaming because it is so easy to use. I don't know if any of that is helpful for you, but I tried. We have no reason to stream television on our computers because this works so much better.

Just fyi this works well for us: https://usnewson.com/watch/msnbc-live

I don't know why it no longer connects for you. We have a mixture of modern and ancient macOS machines.

I'd be tempted to power-cycle computers and routers to make sure it's not something trivial that's breaking things.