diff --git a/apps/web/lib/analytics.test.ts b/apps/web/lib/analytics.test.ts
index 1bff2ff..b47b5be 100644
--- a/apps/web/lib/analytics.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/lib/analytics.test.ts
@@ -22,3 +22,8 @@ test("what anyone plucked never leaves: titles, queries and hashes are dropped,
   expect(out.properties.$current_url).toBe("https://getpluck.io/search");
   expect(out.properties.$referrer).toBe("https://getpluck.io/?utm_source=newsletter");
 });
+
+test("an error from another origin's script, with no message or stack, is not sent", () => {
+  expect(scrub(event("$exception", { $exception_list: [{ type: "Error", value: "Script error." }] }), null)).toBeNull();
+  expect(scrub(event("$exception", { $exception_list: [{ type: "TypeError", value: "x is undefined" }] }), null)?.event).toBe("$exception");
+});
diff --git a/apps/web/lib/analytics.ts b/apps/web/lib/analytics.ts
index 3b1d55f..adde7f5 100644
--- a/apps/web/lib/analytics.ts
+++ b/apps/web/lib/analytics.ts
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ export function scrub(event: CaptureResult | null, given: Consent | null): Captu
   if (!event) return null;
   if (given !== "yes" && event.event !== "$exception") return null;
   const p = event.properties;
+  // A script from another origin (an in-app browser's, an extension's) fails with no message and no stack: nothing to fix.
+  if (event.event === "$exception" && /^Script error\.?$/.test(p.$exception_list?.[0]?.value ?? "")) return null;
   delete p.title; // item pages are titled with the item
   delete p.$title;
   for (const k of ["$current_url", "$referrer", "$initial_current_url", "$initial_referrer"]) if (typeof p[k] === "string") p[k] = keepUtm(p[k]);
diff --git a/packages/db/src/client.test.ts b/packages/db/src/client.test.ts
index d6534fe..bc201aa 100644
--- a/packages/db/src/client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/db/src/client.test.ts
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 import { createServer, connect as tcp, type AddressInfo, type Server } from "node:net";
 import { MongoClient } from "mongodb";
 import { expect, test } from "vitest";
-import { keepConnected } from "./client.ts";
+import { reconnectWhenClosed } from "./client.ts";
 
-const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
 const db = new URL(process.env.MONGODB_URI!.replace(/^mongodb:/, "http:")); // the test database, host and port
 
-test("a client whose first connect failed connects once the database is back", async () => {
-  // A free port with nothing on it yet: connecting there fails like an Atlas election with no primary.
+test("a client whose connect failed connects again on the next query once the database is back", async () => {
+  // A free port with nothing on it yet: connecting there fails like an Atlas election with no primary, or a
+  // serverless instance frozen mid-connect.
   const free = createServer().listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
   await new Promise((r) => free.once("listening", r));
   const port = (free.address() as AddressInfo).port;
   await new Promise((r) => free.close(r));
 
-  const c = new MongoClient(`mongodb://127.0.0.1:${port}/x?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=300`);
-  const connected = keepConnected(c, { firstDelayMs: 100, maxDelayMs: 200 });
-  await sleep(700);
-  await expect(c.db().command({ ping: 1 })).rejects.toThrow(); // the closed topology the driver keeps
+  const c = reconnectWhenClosed(new MongoClient(`mongodb://127.0.0.1:${port}/x?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=300`));
+  await expect(c.connect()).rejects.toThrow();
+  await expect(c.db().command({ ping: 1 })).rejects.toThrow(); // still down: this query's own connect fails too
 
   // The database comes back on that port (a proxy to the test one).
   const proxy: Server = createServer((sock) => {
@@ -26,10 +25,16 @@ test("a client whose first connect failed connects once the database is back", a
     sock.on("error", () => up.destroy());
   }).listen(port, "127.0.0.1");
   try {
-    await connected;
-    expect((await c.db().command({ ping: 1 })).ok).toBe(1);
+    expect((await c.db().command({ ping: 1 })).ok).toBe(1); // no wait, no timer: the query reconnects
   } finally {
     await c.close();
     await new Promise((r) => proxy.close(r));
   }
 });
+
+test("a closed client stays closed", async () => {
+  const c = reconnectWhenClosed(new MongoClient(process.env.MONGODB_URI!));
+  await c.connect();
+  await c.close();
+  await expect(c.db().command({ ping: 1 })).rejects.toThrow(/must be connected/);
+});
diff --git a/packages/db/src/client.ts b/packages/db/src/client.ts
index 4f679ba..fba2e93 100644
--- a/packages/db/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/db/src/client.ts
@@ -2,24 +2,24 @@ import { MongoClient, type Db } from "mongodb";
 
 let client: MongoClient | undefined;
 
-// The driver (mongodb 7) keeps the topology of a first connect that failed, closed, and its auto-connect only
-// connects when there is no topology: every later query answers "Topology is closed" until the process dies. A
-// brief Atlas election at the wrong moment broke warm instances that way. So connect at once, and if that fails,
-// connect again (connect() replaces a topology that is not connected) with backoff until it holds.
-export function keepConnected(c: MongoClient, { firstDelayMs = 1000, maxDelayMs = 30_000 } = {}): Promise<void> {
-  return new Promise((resolve) => {
-    const attempt = (delay: number) =>
-      c.connect().then(() => resolve(), () => setTimeout(() => attempt(Math.min(delay * 2, maxDelayMs)), delay).unref());
-    attempt(firstDelayMs);
+// The driver (mongodb 7) keeps the topology of a connect that failed, closed, and its auto-connect only connects when
+// there is no topology: every later query answers "Topology is closed" until the process dies. On Vercel an instance
+// frozen mid-connect thaws to exactly that, and a retry on a timer is frozen with it. So drop a closed topology: the
+// next query connects again, inside the request that needs it. close() drops its own first, so this leaves it alone.
+export function reconnectWhenClosed(c: MongoClient): MongoClient {
+  const inner = c as unknown as { topology?: { s: { id: number } } }; // why: `topology` is the driver's, not in its types
+  c.on("topologyClosed", (e) => {
+    if (inner.topology?.s.id === e.topologyId) inner.topology = undefined;
   });
+  return c;
 }
 
 // Pool capped at 10 per instance (shared Atlas cluster guardrail).
 export function getClient(uri = process.env.MONGODB_URI): MongoClient {
   if (!uri) throw new Error("MONGODB_URI is not set");
   if (!client) {
-    client = new MongoClient(uri, { maxPoolSize: 10 });
-    void keepConnected(client);
+    client = reconnectWhenClosed(new MongoClient(uri, { maxPoolSize: 10 }));
+    client.connect().catch(() => {}); // warm up; a failure is retried by the first query
   }
   return client;
 }