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Embedded Tweets No Longer Work w/ Tracking Protection (and/or Adblock)
- Thread starter Occam
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Simple solution would be for everyone to actually quote the tweets in their posts, too.
What browser are you using?
I'm in Chrome and I can read everything and see pictures. I can't view videos though.
I'm in Chrome and I can read everything and see pictures. I can't view videos though.
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I tried both Firefox and Firefox Mobile. Since you are using Chrome, I suppose you have no tracking protection?
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It's like that for me now, but they were always stuck perpetually loading for me before that anyways. I just open them in a private tab, if I bother at all, but I agree with this and think it should be basic etiquette anyway.
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Am I missing something? It's embedded tweets, of course they are tracking. Pretty sure it has always been tracking. The add-ons might have finally added it to the list of things to block.
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I am using Firefox's built-in tracking protection, which did not get upated today, and it just stopped working.
Pretty sure Twitter did something.
I have "do not track" turned on on Chrome for Android and can see tweets just fine. Is that not the same thing?
It's not. "Do Not Track" is an honor system-based request to not be tracked, whereas what we're talking about actually blocks the tracking methods from being loaded.
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I've never been able to use Firefox's built-in tracking protection and view embedded tweets simultaneously - the tweets just never loaded. uBlock Origin loaded down with privacy filters works fine with embedded tweets, though.
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ive also noticed that trying to go from an embedded tweet to actual twitter is broken too, it just loads a white page with a "click to continue" link that does nothing
I kind of consider this a blessing in disguise because pages heavy with twitter embeds cause my browser to run like shit when I need to reload.
I hate embedded tweets. Feels like half the time it's just people plugging their own account with like ten followers instead of just writing their response directly here.
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Time for the tracking protection system to start sending random fake data.
Not every one copy/pastes the text. The link just shows you the text. It's helpful because you use it as a "source" and that you're not just randomly copy/pasting bits of pieces or misinterpreting the text
My understanding was that Firefox's Tracking Protection feature is more than just an ad blocker, and they have been expanding on what it does to further improve online privacy.
I'm not sure what changed, but the Twitter embeds have been broken here for a while too - though they used to work.
Twitter embeds disappear if the original tweet is deleted, so I'd prefer that people quoted them anyway (posting images of text is the worst).
The broken Twitter embeds, and allowing people to post images from hosts that don't support HTTPS are two very frustrating things about browsing ResetEra (I have mixed content blocked).
I'm not sure what changed, but the Twitter embeds have been broken here for a while too - though they used to work.
Twitter embeds disappear if the original tweet is deleted, so I'd prefer that people quoted them anyway (posting images of text is the worst).
The broken Twitter embeds, and allowing people to post images from hosts that don't support HTTPS are two very frustrating things about browsing ResetEra (I have mixed content blocked).
For me it's like they sometimes work and sometimes don't. Same devices/browsers with same settings.
For me whole posts that contains Twitter beds disappear (leaving a blank space the size of the hidden post).
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I've found a potential solution.
There's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/twitter-container/?src=search
It means Twitter only knows you're logged on at twitter.com, which means you can disable tracking protection for resetera without worrying about Twitter specifically tracking you.
EDIT: Looks like this still doesn't embed tweets, but at least images linked from tweets are working now, and don't just leave an empty space where you have to use the inspector to find the URL.
There's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/twitter-container/?src=search
It means Twitter only knows you're logged on at twitter.com, which means you can disable tracking protection for resetera without worrying about Twitter specifically tracking you.
EDIT: Looks like this still doesn't embed tweets, but at least images linked from tweets are working now, and don't just leave an empty space where you have to use the inspector to find the URL.
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Bumping this, because I'm still suffering from this problem. I'm installing this Twitter container, hopefully that'll help a little. I've tried disabling everything I could think of and this is still happening. :(
OK, I finally figured out how to fix this problem on my computer (FireFox browser):
Go to an ERA thread page with a post that has an embedded twitter link somewhere on it. This will cause a Sheild icon with a diagonal line through it to pop up in FireFox's URL bar at the top. Click on the shield to bring up a small sub-menu. Of the three categories shown, what you want to click is in the Content Blocking section. Hit the button that says "Turn Off Blocking for This Site".
That should do it. I've tested a few other threads and I can now see the content of all embedded tweets without clicking on a link.
Go to an ERA thread page with a post that has an embedded twitter link somewhere on it. This will cause a Sheild icon with a diagonal line through it to pop up in FireFox's URL bar at the top. Click on the shield to bring up a small sub-menu. Of the three categories shown, what you want to click is in the Content Blocking section. Hit the button that says "Turn Off Blocking for This Site".
That should do it. I've tested a few other threads and I can now see the content of all embedded tweets without clicking on a link.