If statement true for element attribute check, but breaks anyways

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So I am working on a selenium surf automation of this website ->

See attached image to understand the issue better

The problem im facing is, the code (see below) allows for two exact same (seemingly) ads to be true for the main if statement, which checks for the current element selected, having the proper attributes to comply with my codes purpose.

However the first ad on this page, becomes true for the main statement as it should, but then breaks after hitting the line right after it button_text = starting_element. But the ad right after it, its able to traverse past that line and onto the rest of the nested loop etc.

This issue arises randomly (seemingly) amongst different ads throughout the page (of course the ones without any -call to action- button, being skipped, makes sense), but with no clear reason as to why.

while(True):
            starting_element.send_keys(Keys.TAB)
            WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//body/div/div/div[@role='main']/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]")))
            starting_element = browser.switch_to.active_element
            # check for a set of keywords when a CTA button is targeted, if matched then extract URL from source
            if starting_element.get_attribute('role') == "button" and starting_element.get_attribute('aria-busy') == "false" and starting_element.get_attribute('tabindex') == '0':
                button_text = starting_element.text
                if button_text in meta_cta_buttons:
                    parent_element = starting_element.find_element(By.XPATH, "..")
                    while (True):
                        if parent_element.tag_name != 'a':
                            # moves up element ancestry chain 
                            parent_element = parent_element.find_element(By.XPATH, "..") 
                        else:
                            cta_url = parent_element.get_attribute('href')
                            # store links in a set
                            unique_store_urls.add(cta_url)
                            break
                else:
                    continue
            else:
                continue
            try:
                # to look for the loading page data as part of infinite scroll
                spinner_element = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@role='progressbar']//*[name()='svg']")))
                end_of_page_element = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(text(),'Ad Library API')]")
                if spinner_element:
                    print("Spinner exists")
                    time.sleep(3)
                # if its at the footer, it means no data was loaded in time
                elif starting_element == end_of_page_element:
                    break
            except TimeoutException:
                print("Spinner doesn't exist")
                continue

I have printed out the result of the variables for the ad its breaking on, and that elements values are all correct. So im quite lost.

If statement true for element attribute check, but breaks anyways

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