diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9c01fd5c..1eef9b65 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: Install jq
           command: |
+            # Cypress image ships a Google Chrome apt source whose GPG key can expire
+            # and make `apt-get update` fail with NO_PUBKEY / exit 100 before jq installs.
+            rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome*.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*chrome*.list || true
             apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq
 
       # Clone secondary repo and run Playwright tests
diff --git a/.github/workflows/notifications.yml b/.github/workflows/notifications.yml
index fc500590..6e2aef09 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/notifications.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/notifications.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - name: Send Slack deployment notifications
+      continue-on-error: true
       uses: arddluma/cloudflare-pages-slack-notification@v4
       with:
         apiToken: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}