Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted

Post by ghayes » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC

shakna wrote: post #90

iforgotpassword wrote: post #49

I've never understood why people even wanted to use this. For the styling? So you can just copy some random stuff from Twitter and it looks like Twitter but is also interactive? Just with the Facebook like-Button, you're exposing your visitors to the tracking of Twitter. For what? Just so you can quickly copy one snippet and be done with it, instead of manually copying author name, content and link and spending 10 se…

> For what? Just so you can quickly copy one snippet and be done with it, instead of manually copying author name, content and link and spending 10 seconds to format this yourself. Unfortunately copyright law is not going to be happy with that one. [0] It's insanely complicated, but basically, as things are at the moment, the original poster has a right to retract the publication at any time. You may find yourself in…

Post by maccard » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #96

It's a shame there's no better way to preserve a tweet than taking a screenshot -- there's no way to prove that an individual said something, save for perhaps trusting the record on archive.org It doesn't have to be this way. Either the individual or the platform could cryptographically sign content to prove that it really happened. I guess Twitter would prefer a plausible deniability. If anyone screenshots you sayin…

Post by bussetta » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 8:15 AM UTC

Post by vixen99 » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 8:17 AM UTC

Post by rini17 » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 8:18 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #102

dheera wrote: post #30

Just screenshot them instead of embedding them. If you cared about JS injection why would you embed anything?!

How are you supposed to prove the tweet actually happened if you just post a screenshot? It's trivial to forge a screenshot of a tweet to say whatever you want.