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Twitter X, Part 2: The Reckoning

Cardinal

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This happens on my ios device using the browser icabmobile, a highly customizable browser. The upside is that basically every button is where I want it. The downside is you have to manually allow cookies, right down to downloading adblock filters yourself. It's worth it if you're willing to work for it, but then...this kind of crap can happen:

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I've whitelisted Twitter's and DP's cookies, so is there anything else I'm missing? (That's a rhetorical question -- obviously there's something else I'm missing).
 
Cardinal said:
I've whitelisted Twitter's and DP's cookies, so is there anything else I'm missing? (That's a rhetorical question -- obviously there's something else I'm missing).
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As someone who's heavily invested in privacy and breaks websites all the time with all the things I disable, what has likely happened is your browser is blocking some element of cross site scripting. Usually this is done as a privacy/security measure. It stops random webpages like CNN from loading Facebook/Twitter/Google tracking scripts. Basically if you aren't on twitter, stuff from twitter might not load (like embedded tweets).

Is this behavior consistent across different sites?
 
Nomad4Ever said:
As someone who's heavily invested in privacy and breaks websites all the time with all the things I disable, what has likely happened is your browser is blocking some element of cross site scripting. Usually this is done as a privacy/security measure. It stops random webpages like CNN from loading Facebook/Twitter/Google tracking scripts. Basically if you aren't on twitter, stuff from twitter might not load (like embedded tweets).

Is this behavior consistent across different sites?
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I was able to whitelist Twitter's cookies by being on Twitter. I whitelist cookies so that I don't get logged out after clearing them (a basic feature that should be available in every other mobile browser but isn't, at least not on ios). I don't know where else I would test this behavior.
 
Cardinal said:
I was able to whitelist Twitter's cookies by being on Twitter. I whitelist cookies so that I don't get logged out after clearing them (a basic feature that should be available in every other mobile browser but isn't, at least not on ios). I don't know where else I would test this behavior.
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Here, go to this news article. Here is what it should look like if embedded tweets can load.
abcnews.go.com

Elon Musk announces 'temporary limits' for reading Twitter posts

Elon Musk introduced, then quickly amended, new rules on Saturday that set "temporary limits" on how many Twitter posts can be read per day.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

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bleh, ads.

Here is what it looks like for me with my blockers on.
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Nomad4Ever said:
As someone who's heavily invested in privacy and breaks websites all the time with all the things I disable, what has likely happened is your browser is blocking some element of cross site scripting. Usually this is done as a privacy/security measure. It stops random webpages like CNN from loading Facebook/Twitter/Google tracking scripts. Basically if you aren't on twitter, stuff from twitter might not load (like embedded tweets).

Is this behavior consistent across different sites?
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Btw, the Twitter cookie I've whitelisted is ".twitter.com -/" which, if I understand correctly, should conceivably allow every cookie from that platform.
 
Cardinal said:
Btw, the cookie for Twitter I've whitelisted is ".twitter.com -/" which, if I understand correctly, should conceivably allow every cookie from that platform.
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Cookies aren't the problem, as they are mostly being used to keep you logged in. I'll take a look at the browser but it is likely a security/privacy setting.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
Here, go to this news article. Here is what it should look like if embedded tweets can load.
abcnews.go.com

Elon Musk announces 'temporary limits' for reading Twitter posts

Elon Musk introduced, then quickly amended, new rules on Saturday that set "temporary limits" on how many Twitter posts can be read per day.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

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bleh, ads.

Here is what it looks like for me with my blockers on.
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The tweets that are appearing for you aren't appearing on icabmobile.

Edit: hold on, they're not appearing on my laptop's Firefox either.
 
Cardinal said:
The tweets that are appearing for you aren't appearing on icabmobile.

Edit: hold on, they're not appearing on my laptop's Firefox either.
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Well, I think even default Firefox blocks some cross site stuff from loading. I had to go to Chrome, which I don’t use, to get the image with the embedded tweets. You could also try edge.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
Well, I think even default Firefox blocks some cross site stuff from loading. I had to go to Chrome, which I don’t use, to get the image with the embedded tweets. You could also try edge.
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To be clear, Tweets are appearing on Firefox for this site, but not on the news article you linked to.
 
In fire
Cardinal said:
To be clear, Tweets are appearing on Firefox for this site, but not on the news article you linked to.
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So for example if you went to this thread, you see the linked tweet with the video?

Working is really Hella hard. No one told me.

College is over and i can no longer live a life of alcohol, drugs and sex. A 9-5 job i took out a massive loan for is UNFAIR. \ And to top it off Biden wants me to pay her student loan
debatepolitics.com debatepolitics.com
 
Take a look at the privacy settings in your browser. In firefox it is this setting that blocks this kind of stuff.
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Not sure what the equivalent setting in icabmobile is.
 
If it was free I'd download it, but from looking online if I had to guess one of your filter settings is what is blocking it.
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Nomad4Ever said:
Take a look at the privacy settings in your browser. In firefox it is this setting that blocks this kind of stuff.
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Not sure what the equivalent setting in icabmobile is.
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Mine is set to "standard." Icabmobile doesn't have anything so end-user friendly. So if there's a "cross-script," then I'd have to find a way to track it down through icabmobile's ui and whitelist it manually somehow.
 
Cardinal said:
To be clear, Tweets are appearing on Firefox for this site, but not on the news article you linked to.
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They way in which tweets are embedded and exactly what you are blocking can vary quite a bit. For example, here is what that thread looks like to me across 3 different browsers with 3 different levels of privacy/ad blocking enabled.
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Cardinal said:
Btw, the Twitter cookie I've whitelisted is ".twitter.com -/" which, if I understand correctly, should conceivably allow every cookie from that platform.
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I think you use asterisks as wildcards for filters. Try:

*twitter.com*​

And maybe you need this now:

*x.com*​
 
Now, this is happening to all users. Musk has punished spammers. X seems to have disabled embeds.
 
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