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DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2020, 03:25 AM Jun 2020

Interesting bug on embedded tweets.

Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2020, 04:14 AM - Edit history (2)

My default browser is Vivaldi. As of about 10 days ago, suddenly, the tweets that are embedded don't load on the desktop version. They do load on the mobile version of Vivaldi. No issues with Chrome or Edge browsers on the desktop. For some reason, the same issue came up in Mozilla Firefox. I even did a user-agent spoof of Chrome 83 and cleared the cookie file. The code is the same, but different results. Any ideas?

Update: This error upon Inspection: Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT Is that Twitter or DU?

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Interesting bug on embedded tweets. (Original Post) DAMANgoldberg Jun 2020 OP

not getting twitter is your lucky day nt msongs Jun 2020 #1

Possibly due to an extension on your browser, such as adware. Good luck. nt 42bambi Jun 2020 #2

I solved the problem DAMANgoldberg Jun 2020 #3

thank you! NJCher Jun 2020 #4

How about Chrome? essaynnc Jun 2020 #5

Hello... DAMANgoldberg Jun 2020 #6

msongs

(67,347 posts)

1. not getting twitter is your lucky day nt

Reply to DAMANgoldberg (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 04:55 AM

Jun 2020

42bambi

(1,753 posts)

2. Possibly due to an extension on your browser, such as adware. Good luck. nt

Reply to DAMANgoldberg (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 07:03 AM

Jun 2020

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts)

3. I solved the problem

Reply to 42bambi (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 01:06 PM

Jun 2020

What Vivaldi and Firefox have done is now standard privacy detection and built-in ad blocking. I made an exception for democraticunderground.com so I can see the tweets. Even though it's warned that some sites may break because of this, I'm glad it's there.

PS, Vivaldi is developed in Norway 🇳🇴, so it's subject to EU 🇪🇺 privacy policy, more stringent than the US, even California.

NJCher

(35,616 posts)

4. thank you!

Reply to DAMANgoldberg (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 16, 2020, 10:01 PM

Jun 2020

I've been having that problem, too. Now I know what to do about it.

essaynnc

(799 posts)

5. How about Chrome?

Reply to DAMANgoldberg (Original post)

Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:21 PM

Jun 2020

I'm having exact same issue on Google Chrome. Any ideas how to allow Twitter to play??

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts)

6. Hello...

Reply to essaynnc (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 01:17 AM

Jun 2020

Since I'm writing this from Chrome, I couldn't replicate what you are seeing. Vivaldi and Firefox have built-in tracking that will block Twitter Widgets (the one's that open automatically) unless the website democraticunderground.com is whitelisted as an exception or the tracking protection is turned off.

I don't run tracking protection in Chrome and haven't found yet an extension that acts like the aforementioned services. I also couldn't replicate this on the desktop mode of Chrome on Android. This is an extension causing this that is working too well. It should have an exception offering somewhere in its Extension options. HTH

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