Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
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Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#2How long until people realize sites like Twitter are actively hostile, and embedding their scripts is equivalent to letting the Trojan horse through your gates?
Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#3FYI if you block their JS on third-party sites, it works fine:
Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#4FYI if you block their JS on third-party sites, it works fine: https://i.imgur.com/cb5Lyd5.png
It’s not even that twitter is hostile; allowing any third–party javascript onto your website is a mistake.
Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#5FYI if you block their JS on third-party sites, it works fine: https://i.imgur.com/cb5Lyd5.png
It’s not even that twitter is hostile; allowing any third–party javascript onto your website is a mistake.
But how will marketing determine the effectiveness of their efforts if I don't "just add a single line of code" for every social media company to our website?
Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#6How long until people realize sites like Twitter are actively hostile, and embedding their scripts is equivalent to letting the Trojan horse through your gates?
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Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#7fix the title please
An apostrophe as a possessive marker in its is nonstandard:
Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#8Re: Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
#9This is so stupid on twitter's part. It's obviously easy for publishers to work around by including both the blockquote of the tweet (unadorned), plus the version w/ the twitter embed class.
End result will be much uglier pages.
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#10Functionality aside embedding random scripts from twitter seems like a big risk for security and privacy.
At a minimum, it should probably be embedded in a sandboxed iframe.
Just taking a screenshot, and linking to the tweet, seems like a more robust solution, that won't randomly stop working, and doesn't have the same privacy issues.