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

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FYI 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

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How 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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Aren't they? Of course they are doing it for their own sneaky benefit, if only in terms of PR.

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

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Functionality 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.

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