You mean twitter, it's called twitter.

The best X to stay safe on X is to stop using X. Seriously, how many "final straws" are necessary before we all realize the place isn't worth visiting anymore? The spicy memes no longer justify the many, many flaws and risks.

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Honestly, ANY platform that obscures links through redirection should be considered unsafe. If you can't verify the target URL before you click the link, then you are asking trouble. Twitter and similar platforms do this so they can track you more effectively. (In the past it also served the purpose of shortening links to SMS-friendly lengths, but that ship sailed like 10 years ago.)

Not that visibility automatically would make it safe, but it is the bare minimum required as a starting point.

Cool but I don’t care what happens to anyone on that platform.

I mean, clicking links in any kind of comment/forum type place on the internet can be dicey, even if it is exactly what it says it is.

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It's Not Safe to Click on X

Fixed

I don't even let my browser display embedded tweets anymore (via Privacy Badger). There are an odd amount of "news stories" that are just strings of embedded tweets.

Twitter is such a shithole

Bots clicking on bots to get hacked by bots. I don’t see the issue here.

was it ever?

Or you could end up in deep Xeet

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

Lifehacker still exists?

Damn, a security researcher discovered what was known from late 1990's/early 2000's: a link on a webpage could take you in a place that it is not the one the link say it will be.

Sounds like an issue with pretty much all URL shortening/redirection services on any service.

Even if the link was legit when they posted it and always went to forbes (not that forbes is much more than blogspam these days), it might not be legit when you go to click on it.

It's all just 3rd party tracking bullshit anyway. The modern internet is horseshit.

An article talking about redirecting links on a site that uses redirect links for sharing its own content. x dot cahm -> twitter dot cahm