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The tweets are there if I click on the loading tweet message to go directly to twitter, but the "loading tweet" is all I'm seeing here tonight. Didn't knowingly change anything on this end.

That's usually because of an ad blocker. Check to see if one updated.

Dave said:

That's usually because of an ad blocker. Check to see if one updated.

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It returned to normal about ten minutes later. Go figure.

This is happening to me. I'm on mobile with no Adblock

Still happening? It seems fine to me...

Actually it used to be "loading tweet" which I could click on to open the tweet. Now it's this.

Hrmmm... I'm on the road and probably won't be able to look into this until this weekend unfortunately.

It’s been showing “ Loading tweet...” in Firefox for ages, but loads the embed in Safari just fine.
I expect it’s just the usual config/browser/settings/plug-in issue.

—Patrick

Oh yeah, I'm on chrome for iOS.

Was this looked at?

blotsfan said:

Was this looked at?

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Hard to look into something you can't replicate.

Dave said:

Hard to look into something you can't replicate.

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When I first reported this, it self-corrected minutes later. So there's that.

Yeah, I could never get it to happen for me in a situation that wasn't the direct fault of the network I was connected to.

You tried chrome ios? It's fine if you didn't because you don't have an iPhone or can't. I'm just wondering.

blotsfan said:

You tried chrome ios? It's fine if you didn't because you don't have an iPhone or can't. I'm just wondering.

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Yeah, I couldn't try that. No apple devices in my possession.

Just saw this thread, I'm experiencing the same issue Blotsfan is, I'm on Android and using the Samsung Internet browser.

This magically started working again today.

Now I only get the whitespace with the twitter logo, no tweet. I have to load it in a separate tab to read anything.

This is still most likely the ad and/or script blocker.

--Patrick

Yet I have ABP blocked on here, and I undid Ublock Origin because it was reducing some of my NFL emails to nothing...

jwhouk said:

I undid Ublock Origin because it was reducing some of my NFL emails to nothing...

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Reminds me very much of "The fire alarm kept going off so we unplugged it."

Yeah, there's a lot that'll break when you turn off (or block) some of the scripting. An email can't just be an email any more, now it has to be an interactive, always-online multimedia experience that breaks if you don't allow all the scripts to run/embedded content to load.
Well eff that, I don't need you knowing if/when I ever open your email. If your email can't tell me what I need to know ACTUALLY IN THE EMAIL then I don't need it.

--Patrick

This is happening to me now and I can't for the life of me figure out what's doing it.

• Ghostery - Turned off for HF.
• Adblock Plus - HF whitelisted
• DuckDuckGo - Turned off for HF
• Privacy Badger - Turned off for HF
• uBlock Origins - Turned off for HF

Unless there's something now in Chrome directly, I can't figure this out. And in the Chrome settings for security, I have it set to off.

Ironically it's happening to me now in firefox but works fine in chrome. Might be because I updated firefox recently but not chrome. I notice there's been a lot of new privacy/tracking cookie blocking stuff added into vanilla browsers, and if there's one thing social media things HATE it is privacy protection.

Yep, I just updated chrome to the latest version and BOOM the tweets stopped working.

I updated us to the latest s9e media embed, didn't fix it. Tried disabling all the new firefox privacy stuff. didn't fix it. Lots and lots of other people on various forums have been complaining about this intermittently for years, though... not sure what the deal is.

Of all the...

It's lastpass. The new version of the lastpass addon breaks twitter embeds. I disabled the lastpass addon on my browser and it all started working again.

Oh that’s fucking rich. I have 5 privacy and ad blockers working and my password extension is what did it?!?

Dave said:

my password extension is what did it?!?

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Yes, and it was for your own good. You need to stop doomscrolling. Also you should get more exercise and eat better.

--Patrick

And now things are working again and I didn't even restart my browser. I dunno what's going on. Maybe it's because I turned off enhanced fill (which never worked right anyway)?

GasBandit said:

And now things are working again and I didn't even restart my browser. I dunno what's going on. Maybe it's because I turned off enhanced fill (which never worked right anyway)?

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Did you do that in the extension settings? I don't see that setting anywhere.

Mine started working this morning again and I haven't changed shit.

So hey, should I stop pressing this big red button labeled "Break Twitter Links on Halforums"?

Dave said:

Did you do that in the extension settings? I don't see that setting anywhere.

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My understanding is not everyone has it (they seem to be rolling it out in stages), but if you have it, the option is in your vault (make sure to open it from the browser addon, not by going to the website) and looking here:



Under "Advanced Options" below "view deleted items."

But don't worry about it because it's shit and it breaks fill on 90 percent of websites. Usually it tries to fill the wrong website credentials, if it even tries to fill at all.

I avoid this by totally disabling autofill on every device I own.
Go, me.

--Patrick