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When I first encounted the error and searched for how to disable whitenoise, I saw the setting below and used it while creting my settings/test.py file:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'

Based however on my own base.py file, to successfully override it, I needed this:

STORAGES = {
    # Enable WhiteNoise's GZip and Brotli compression of static assets:
    # https://whitenoise.readthedocs.io/en/latest/django.html#add-compression-and-caching-support
    "staticfiles": {
        "BACKEND": 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage',
    },
}

Switching the first for the later worked. I guess I made flawed assumptions about how the settings are read by Django!

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