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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by FreeHugs »

djsumdog wrote: post #14

JSFiddle is big. They tried. They voiced concerns. They asked foe help. They got a ban with no explanation. Please just join the fediverse. It's broken too, but if you get banned, at least you can open an alt on another server. Force Twitter to be irrelevant.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by diveanon »

At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter?

From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda.

I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by vanderZwan »

What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work just fine, no?

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by martin_a »

mattigames wrote: post #15
ecares wrote: post #2

I feel it's actually pretty fair. Not perfect, but keeps users safe

Except they will now use github pages; and if they block all github pages (github.io) they will use codepen or repl.it or tumblr (custom templates), and so on until thousands of page are blocked.

Sounds somewhat like a "Win" to me. Twitter will die in doing so, I don't see anything getting lost there anymore.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by luu »

vanderZwan wrote: post #23

What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work ju…

[Edit: whoops, misread the issue. Sorry!]

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by stevekemp »

diveanon wrote: post #22

At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter? From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda. I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.

From your perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda.

From my perspective it's the everyday chat of my friends, and interesting security-researchers posting their findings.

It's also a randomly acquired group of people I follow to improve my ability to read the Finnish language.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by manojlds »

tomglynch wrote: post #17
FreeHugs wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is "a wallet code"?

I assume they mean a mining script - so that the person running the jsfiddle would be mining cryptocurrencies, and the proceeds would go to the scammers wallet address.

I am thinking code that would leverage browser extension wallets like Metamask and access the wallet of the user and steal the crypto.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by jaggirs »

vfc1 wrote: post #7

Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do. It's also impossible for both jsfiddle or twitter to scan the code of each fiddle and determine if it's legitimate or an attack, so this looks like a good measure from Twitter. What is surprising is how this was even allowed so far and still is i…

It makes sense to ban a website that is 100% mining, but blanket-banning jsfiddle is like banning the whole internet because there might be a crypto miner on any website. Probably 99% of jsfiddle links are not miners.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by djsumdog »

FreeHugs wrote: post #21
djsumdog wrote: post #14

JSFiddle is big. They tried. They voiced concerns. They asked foe help. They got a ban with no explanation. Please just join the fediverse. It's broken too, but if you get banned, at least you can open an alt on another server. Force Twitter to be irrelevant.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Drew Dewalt. Richard Stevens (Diesel Sweeties) and wait ... why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people. Remember 90s AOL chatrooms?

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by Phenix88be »

layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #12
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…

Crypto scammers can simply switch to GitHub Pages. Can Twitter ban github links?

Why not ? They did it for JSFiddle. They own the platform, so technically they do what they want.
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