Can we have Twitter Image Embeds instead of Twitter Post Embeds?

[evildice]

I don't want to let any social media site track my browser on QQ.

Could we please get normal proxie'd images instead of Twitter post embeds with tracking callbacks?

 

[AztecCroc]

I don't want to let any social media site track my browser on QQ.

Could we please get normal proxie'd images instead of Twitter post embeds with tracking callbacks?

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That isn't possible.

 

[evildice]

That isn't possible.

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It already works for people who specify a Twitter-hosted image. It is possible and I already see it working. Not sure what you're imagining, but you appear to be wrong.

 

[AztecCroc]

It already works for people who specify a Twitter-hosted image. It is possible and I already see it working. Not sure what you're imagining, but you appear to be wrong.

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The post you're using as an example is a video, not an image.

 

[evildice]

The post you're using as an example is a video, not an image.

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Can't verify that, but whatever.

Here's a post of a still image:

Here's the image:

There's no need to embed a call to the Twitter servers for a proxy-compatible image like that.

 

[AztecCroc]

Can't verify that, but whatever.

Here's a post of a still image:

Here's the image:

There's no need to embed a call to the Twitter servers for a proxy-compatible image like that.

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Well, that's on the poster for choosing to embed the post rather than the image, not something QQ can do anything about.

 

[Renko]

Twitter embeds are dumb.

99% of the time, I can't even see the post unless I click on it directly in which it will redirect me to the twitter posts! So frustrating!

 

[evildice]

Well, that's on the poster for choosing to embed the post rather than the image, not something QQ can do anything about.

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QQ could simply not do live-embeds from Twitter at all.

Images which get proxied are fine, and links which show up as URLs are fine.

If I need to click a URL to go to Twitter, to watch a video or whatever, that's fine. I can sanitize that link and view it through a container'd window if I want.

 

[magic9mushroom]

Relevant in at least some respects.

 

[evildice]

Relevant in at least some respects.

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Posted there.

BTW, there's now a trend for YouTube to prohibit embeds from actually working, so those ones are just spying without providing value in return:

This is worse than a link would be, and I need to follow the link anyway to see whatever is in the video.

We're looking at a forum feature with negative value.


Please just disable media embeds.

 

[AztecCroc]

Posted there.

BTW, there's now a trend for YouTube to prohibit embeds from actually working, so those ones are just spying without providing value in return:

This is worse than a link would be, and I need to follow the link anyway to see whatever is in the video.

We're looking at a forum feature with negative value.


Please just disable media embeds.

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That's a region issue on your end, the video there loads fine for me.