diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aa1078b..c6e072f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) · versioned wi
 - **Voice list rows no longer show the "Source unknown" badge** (it crowded the play buttons). The badge stays in the voice inspector, next to the Source & consent panel.
 
 ### Fixed
+- **Magazine specs no longer touch the live settings.** The export-provenance checkboxes read and saved `/api/settings` on the real app (a run left the default off, failing the next one); the spec now mocks it. The hostile deep-link spec waits for the lazily loaded magazine module before calling the parser.
 - **Duplicate German i18n keys and dead frontend code.** Removed 14 shadowed duplicate keys in `i18n.js` (effective translations unchanged), the unreachable body of `audiobookShowPreview`, and two identical-branch ternaries.
 - **Security hardening (Sonar findings).** The Docker installer downloads `get-docker.sh` into a private `mkdtemp` dir (not a predictable `/tmp` path) and removes it afterwards; the OMDb poster lookup uses HTTPS; the fish.audio cache key marks MD5 as `usedforsecurity=False`.
 - **Background jobs could be garbage-collected mid-run.** Fire-and-forget `asyncio.create_task` calls (magazine, conversation, tts, stt, library, sources) now go through `core.tasks.spawn`, which keeps a strong reference until the task ends and logs failures by exception class only.
diff --git a/tests/magazine.spec.js b/tests/magazine.spec.js
index f2cf499..5bfc51e 100644
--- a/tests/magazine.spec.js
+++ b/tests/magazine.spec.js
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ async function mockBackend(page, { articleStatus = 'detected', hasAudio = false,
   await page.route('**/api/voices*', route => route.fulfill({
     json: [{ id: 'smoke_voice', name: 'Smoke voice', enabled: true, tag: 'Magazine' }],
   }));
+  // The export-provenance default is read and saved through /api/settings; never let a spec reach the live one.
+  await page.route('**/api/settings', route => route.fulfill({ json: { export_provenance_default: true } }));
 }
 
 test.describe('Magazine reader', () => {
@@ -1797,6 +1799,8 @@ test.describe('Share link and deep link into driving mode', () => {
     const bad = `/#s-magazine?doc=${DOC_ID}&article=%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dwindow.__xss%3D1%3E&mode=drive`;
     await openLink(page, bad);
     await navTo(page, 's-magazine');
+    // The magazine module loads lazily: wait for it, so the checks below run against the loaded parser.
+    await page.waitForFunction(() => typeof window.magParseDeepLink === 'function', null, { timeout: 15_000 });
     await expect(page.locator('#mag-driving')).toBeHidden();
     expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__xss)).toBeUndefined();
     const { parse } = await page.evaluate(() => ({ parse: [