seraph ,
@seraph@wetdry.world avatar

this shit is so funny

Are you serious, X Corp? Ahoy there, welcome to roblotwitter! I assure you, there's nothing fishy going on here, so feel free to read on. Yeah, it's a "honeypot". Sorry about that. I'm not trying to apologize and get away with it, though. But when you clicked on this link, you probably thought you were looking at something like "roblox.com". Simple URL substitution can cause this kind of thing to happen, so I made this site. So let's shout it out. "Are you serious, X Corp?"

This domain has been acquired to prevent its use for malicious purposes As of April 8, 2024, the iOS Twitter (now X) client automatically replaces the text "twitter.com" in posts with "x.com" as part of its functionality. Therefore, for example, a URL that appears to be "netflix.com" will actually redirect to "netflitwitter.com" when clicked. Please be aware that there is a potential for this feature to be exploited in the future, by acquiring domains containing "twitter.com" to lead users to malicious pages. This domain, "netflitwitter.com," has been acquired for protective purposes to prevent its use for such malicious activities. If there are any concerns, please contact the X account @yuyu0127_ .
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    dpnash ,
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    @seraph @pluralistic Good grief, it’s the Yahoo “medireview” bug all over again. You know the one: Yahoo replaced potentially dangerous JavaScript commands with more innocuous synonyms in emails. As a global search and replace, with no regard for context (like spaces or punctuation). “eval” got replaced with “review”, and all of a sudden, people interested in history from 500 to 1500 years ago were reading about “medireview” topics.

    Twenty-three years ago.

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview

    weekend_editor ,
    @weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz avatar

    @dpnash @seraph @pluralistic
    @cstross

    Or even earlier, AOL and its problem with the good people of Scunthorpe:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

    philbetts ,
    @philbetts@mastodon.social avatar

    @weekend_editor @dpnash @seraph @pluralistic @cstross at least @mattround fixed the Scunthorpe problem with the Scunthorpe Sans font: https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/

    dougs ,
    @dougs@nd2.uk avatar

    @dpnash @seraph @pluralistic
    I pity the occutrousers of this timeline.

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