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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by dmix »

luu wrote: post #148
dmix wrote: post #138

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> From my perspective it's the everyday chat of my friends, and interesting security-researchers posting their findings. I wish this was true. I’ve struggled for years to keep my feed about the tech topics I’m interested in. Twitter keeps making that harder and harder. Now twitter force feeds every viral anti-Trump or political outrage tweet, liked by some random user I followed 4yrs ago, into my main feed. Their ins…

> I hope Twitter makes a ‘retro’ mode where I can just see the actual tweets of only the people I follow in semi-chronological order. With the option to turn off retweets for certain users. I think both of these exist? There's a way to turn off retweets for particular users (it's in the same menu you'd use to mute or block someone) and there's an option to show a plain timeline (uncheck "show the best tweets first").…

Yes I'm sure there's some workaround way to do it either through custom lists or using Tweetdeck (or some other app) but I've tried those and unless it's the primary feed with full native mobile support the UX is awful and Twitter still finds ways to force content on you.

Twitter is pretty simple fundamentally. It is just the feed with some notifications for 90% of the UX. I just want a different kind of primary feed that reflects what it used to be about. Even it's just a tab on the feed. Like how Reddit has "Home", "News", and "Popular" tabs, I just want the home tab.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by komali2 »

majewsky wrote: post #122
slig wrote: post #114

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Videos and images can contain offensive material and twitter is full of them.

Twitter is full of offensive anything.

It is pretty remarkable that no matter who you are, Twitter will find a way to piss you off.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

chrisacky wrote: post #90

This is a little offtopic, although I suppose there's a tangential link to JSFiddle getting no response from Twitter.. I too have failed in getting a response from JSFiddle.. About 70 days ago, I accidentally posted an anonymous submission to JSFiddle. There was no excuse for this other than human error. I was working on development and production at the same time and copied a users personally identifiable from an em…

So, let me get this right...

You, a software engineering professional copied a user'name, email and order reference ID, two of which are PII into an online service... on purpose.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by morpheuskafka »

vermontdevil wrote: post #4

It’s due to crypto scammers using it. From the founder’s post: At some point in the past crypto scammers used JSFiddle to host pages with a wallet code and posted links to that on Twitter. Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these. I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam…

Couldn't you do the same thing with github.io, S3 Websites, Netlify, the list goes on? Why would they single out JSFiddle among numerous services where one can upload arbitrary code?

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by jjeaff »

kbenson wrote: post #140
vermontdevil wrote: post #4

It’s due to crypto scammers using it. From the founder’s post: At some point in the past crypto scammers used JSFiddle to host pages with a wallet code and posted links to that on Twitter. Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these. I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam…

On a complete tangent, I think "rogue" might be the most misspelled word for those that otherwise have good spelling. It's still jarring every time I see it, decade after decade. And "loose" instead of "lose", but that one is just confusing.

I legitimately thought we were talking about reddish colored fiddles for a moment.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by oarsinsync »

solarkraft wrote: post #102
tannhaeuser wrote: post #68

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Blocking cryptominers or other script isn't possible because of JavaScript's nature as Turing-complete language, much less with new shiny WebWorkers/PWAs. It's also not just a minor annoyance when miners, trackers, and all kinds of other nefarious or just plain garbage scripts drain your batteries and consume power/bandwidth for no other reason than browser vendors being busy to develop webapp platforms and world dom…

You can detect crypto miners pretty easily by their behavior.

I think Digital Ocean shared your view, until recently, when false positives caused them to shutdown a customer business, and a broken support procedure caused them to keep it down. Search HN archives for Digital Ocean from the last week or two and you should be able to find that story.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by Ensorceled »

duxup wrote: post #125
Ensorceled wrote: post #113

How many people are actually linking to valid JSFiddle links from Twitter? This might have just been a math decision (X% malware > x% good links). I have my own problems with Twitter, but a social media site with a LOT of non-technical users blocking access to a site specifically designed to run anonymous code in their browser doesn't make me want to break out my pitchfork ...

I think the math would then lead to only big sites being "good enough" to pass the twitter test as to who gets a whole domain filtered or not, and if you're running a site that someone does a bad thing on ... so much for anyone linking to you anymore on Twitter. That seems inherently bad.

That’s not entirely my point. The whole point of JSFiddle (which I love) is at odds with the bulk of the demographic of Twitter. If your content sharing site inadvertently has malware you can remove it, JSFiddle will always be risky.

The bulk of the people I follow on Twitter would have no clue what it was or how to even begin to understand it.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by Ensorceled »

dmix wrote: post #137
duxup wrote: post #125

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I think the math would then lead to only big sites being "good enough" to pass the twitter test as to who gets a whole domain filtered or not, and if you're running a site that someone does a bad thing on ... so much for anyone linking to you anymore on Twitter. That seems inherently bad.

Twitter et al have already decided to become the self-anointed gatekeepers of what’s okay to post on the internet. I missed the days when it was just Google search results we had to worry about.

Agreed. I just think this isn’t an example, or at least not an example of the worst of it.

I can’t think of any legitimate reason for my cousins who are on Twitter would want to go to JSFiddle. I’m ok with Twitter taking this stance. I’m not ok with many of the other policies.

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