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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Or you could end up in deep Xeet
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.*Chinese
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.
Portuguese, people. X sound like sh in Portuguese. So Xopping, xell, xelter and Xitter. Words in Portuguese where X sounds like sh: xarope, xerife, xícara.
Mastodon
Lifehacker still exists?
It’s Not Safe to Click on X
Fixed
I once clicked on X and the whole window disappeared!
Even if X is just a placeholder for anything.
It’s Not Safe on X
Fixed
It’s Not Safe
Fixed
⠀
Fixed
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.
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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I need a firefox plugin that blocks Twitter. Not tweets from blue checkmarks, the whole damn site.
I have Nitter Redirect installed, but Nitter stopped working. So it just blackholes all X links. Some day I’ll add them to my pihole, I guess.
Cool but I don’t care what happens to anyone on that platform.
An article talking about redirecting links on a site that uses redirect links for sharing its own content. x dot cahm -> twitter dot cahm
Would be interesting to know whether this was possible using the old preview system, and we didn’t see it until now, or whether it’s something that arose as a result of the link preview overhaul that they did not that long ago.
Damn, a security researcher discovered what was known from late 1990’s/early 2000’s: a link on a webpage could take you in a place that it is not the one the link say it will be.
