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

submitted 8 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 13 points 8 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.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

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

[–] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 6 points 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.