diff --git a/changedetectionio/processors/base.py b/changedetectionio/processors/base.py
index 021e1b90f..0258c0969 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/processors/base.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/processors/base.py
@@ -265,8 +265,10 @@ class difference_detection_processor():
         # encode('utf-8') raises UnicodeEncodeError downstream in checksums, diffs, file writes, etc.
         # Covers all fetchers (requests, playwright, puppeteer, selenium) in one place.
         # See: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/issues/3952
-        if self.fetcher.content and isinstance(self.fetcher.content, str):
-            self.fetcher.content = self.fetcher.content.encode('utf-8', errors='replace').decode('utf-8')
+
+        # DISABLED FOR NOW, TRY TO SEE IF THE TEST BREAKS ON GITHUB
+       # if self.fetcher.content and isinstance(self.fetcher.content, str):
+        #    self.fetcher.content = self.fetcher.content.encode('utf-8', errors='replace').decode('utf-8')
 
         # After init, call run_changedetection() which will do the actual change-detection