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It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

PiHole can block any domain you want. AdGuardHome has a handy switch in the UI that does it for you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Lifehacker still exists?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

"Anymore"

As if it hasn't always been a dumpster fire.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

An article talking about redirecting links on a site that uses redirect links for sharing its own content. x dot cahm -> twitter dot cahm

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Bots clicking on bots to get hacked by bots. I don’t see the issue here.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You mean twitter, it's called twitter.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

𝕏itter. In ~~spanish~~ (sorry, I was mistaken) some languages X sounds like sh, so it's Shitter now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I’m sorry, what? Can you give some examples in Spanish where the letter x makes a sh sound?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Those are Mayan words

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

was it ever?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Or you could end up in deep Xeet

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

Cool but I don’t care what happens to anyone on that platform.

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