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(it is correct on the site itself)
> That widgets.js script looks for blockquotes with the class="twitter-tweet" on, and replaces them with a Twitter branded iframe to confirm that it is a real tweet
And that's how most libraries work? I don't see an issue. Yes, if you delete the tweet it seems they changed the behaviour (and that might be an actual bug) but still...
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…
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…
Oh come off it already. What a remarkably brain dead opinion.
Twitter _is not a public utility_. It owes you _nothing_. Their property, their decision. That simple.
I do have an issue with the idea of their JS manipulating your own website but fuck off with this "Twitter is a public service" argument.
- They don't have to give you an account
- You are not entitled to make demands of them
- You can always use another service
Goddamned children. Enough already.
Well, any third-party script that you embed on your website can edit your site and do many other nefarious things (key logging, credential stealing, ...). I never got how people can just copy/paste some random JS into their own websites (often without even using integrity tags). Social embeds in particular have turned the web into a surveillance machine for large corporations, as every FB/Twitter/Instagram/... embed…
The "web" has been going to hell in this way for a decade at least, because it ceased to have boundaries. Without boundaries there cannot be responsibility. Widespread introduction of JavaScript created a quite different kind of technology from the WWW in which concepts of client-browser and document-server made any sense.
Minus any reliability/security it can't be considered safe for delivery of important materials now. If even the site owner can't trust what you see on a site that's bad (though as people point out, we've had this even since banner ads) But it's why I think the future of critical "information services" (as opposed to e-commerce / social media) is on something like Gemini.
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 saying something you regret, you can just say it was forged.
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…
I mean it's fairly easy to understand why people used this. It's very convenient (just click share or use a WordPress widget to embed tweet), it always look pretty, and there are multiple actions available from the tweet: go to profile, reply, share ... So more features for less time to set-up. This is a service like all other Service, you usually tradeoff something like privacy for convenience. Why use Dropbox when…
You trade GDPR-complience for convenience and all the Functions gained are not that hard to replicate..
Why not just copy paste or screenshot the Tweet? It's bizarre to reference a script from twitter.com directly in your site's source code and then complain that the script is doing exactly what it is supposed to.
Why not just copy paste or screenshot the Tweet? It's bizarre to reference a script from twitter.com directly in your site's source code and then complain that the script is doing exactly what it is supposed to.
Omg... the thing about cited deleted tweets becomin a white glob, gives me some vibes of 1984's "rewriting history".