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

  • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I need a firefox plugin that blocks Twitter. Not tweets from blue checkmarks, the whole damn site.

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      8 months ago

      PrivacyBadger blocks embedded tweets, so since you’re probably not going to visit the website itself, it should do the trick.

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        8 months ago

        Plus, it has the added benefit of drawing attention to how many “articles” on other sites are just a long string of embedded tweets.