As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann’s example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram channel that is, “helping individuals earn maximum profit in the crypto market,” he said. In short, the “Forbes” link leads to crypto spam
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You mean twitter, it’s called twitter.
𝕏itter. In
spanish(sorry, I was mistaken) some languages X sounds like sh, so it’s Shitter now.I always refer to it as Xitter or Xchan. I’m yet to encounter someone who doesn’t know which fallen brand I’m referring to.
I’m sorry, what? Can you give some examples in Spanish where the letter x makes a sh sound?
I don’t speak Spanish (helpful eh?) but I remember when I was in Mexico I went to a cool place called Xel-Há, which was pronounced shell-ha. So there’s one.
I don’t think that’s Spanish. Nahuatl, which is an indigenous language spoken in Mexico, does use x- to transcribe the sound commonly written as sh- in English, so that’s probably a Nahuatl place-name.
In the case of Xitter, though, the reference is generally to Mandarin Chinese, which uses x- to transcribe one of the two or three distinct sounds in that language that all sound like sh- to Anglophones.
That makes sense, thanks for teaching me something today :)
xoloitzcuintle, sometimes xcaret is pronounced as shcaret (not common tho)
Neither of those words are Spanish tho. Xoloizcuintle is a náhuatl word, and Xcaret is a mayan word.
Mastodon
I don’t even let my browser display embedded tweets anymore (via Privacy Badger). There are an odd amount of “news stories” that are just strings of embedded tweets.
The best X to stay safe on X is to stop using X. Seriously, how many “final straws” are necessary before we all realize the place isn’t worth visiting anymore? The spicy memes no longer justify the many, many flaws and risks.
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Honestly, ANY platform that obscures links through redirection should be considered unsafe. If you can’t verify the target URL before you click the link, then you are asking trouble. Twitter and similar platforms do this so they can track you more effectively. (In the past it also served the purpose of shortening links to SMS-friendly lengths, but that ship sailed like 10 years ago.)
Not that visibility automatically would make it safe, but it is the bare minimum required as a starting point.
I mean, clicking links in any kind of comment/forum type place on the internet can be dicey, even if it is exactly what it says it is.
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Thanks for the link, friend 🍋💦
I also appreciate the link. This will be my new favorite website now that the one about goat husbandry no longer exists.
was it ever?
Nope, but this is musk hate…not common sense.
You can replace X/Twitter with any platform that has users posting links and it doesn’t change. Discord? Steam? Sms? Signal? Facebook? Forums? Reddit?
there’s a difference if the platform in question replaces every link with their own tracking link lengthener which only later redirects where it should. at least twitter and yt does this, preventing you from seeing real destination. some places don’t
So… basically every platform and anyone who is has 1/2 a brain cell to rub together and hide a link?
I need a firefox plugin that blocks Twitter. Not tweets from blue checkmarks, the whole damn site.
PrivacyBadger blocks embedded tweets, so since you’re probably not going to visit the website itself, it should do the trick.
Plus, it has the added benefit of drawing attention to how many “articles” on other sites are just a long string of embedded tweets.
It’s Not Safe to Click on X
Fixed
I once clicked on X and the whole window disappeared!
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