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[–] [email protected] 206 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This issue comes from the fact that even though the domain is now changed to x.com, it still tries to load content from twitter.com which Firefox thinks is social media tracking because it's coming from a different domain than the one you're on.

It's a hilarious and dumb oversight with this change.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Web developer here: This is 100% sloppy code on the part of Twitter. Like... I can't believe the amount of incompetence required.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can, didn’t all the better developers leave when Elon took over?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

One of the managers in my org used to work there, and lost his job post-takeover. Apparently most that were left were on L1B visas, so had no opportunity to move elsewhere. His theory was that Elon knew exactly what he was doing, because he now has a team of engineers in their late twenties and early thirties that'll basically do whatever he wants, or risk uprooting their families back to their home country.

They're probably still great engineers, but when you're doing the job of multiple teams, or things have zero coverage, shit is going to slip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My headcanon is that they are still there, forced to watch as Musk personally "improves" their code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That or he fired them, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah isn’t this related to CORS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They should've just moved the other twitter domains too 🫠

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Likely on purpose. X wants to data mine you more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Totally. I got the error message yesterday and didn't try once to circumvent it. Twitter is that important to me