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Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.
Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.
According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.
“For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky,” Schwartz wrote.
Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.
Sorry for off topic, but what is rawstory? It’s on some tracking blocklist and that url is funny. Although it looks just like any other news site.
It’s a left-wing news outlet. I don’t think there’s anything malicious there in terms of security.
These blocklists are wack sometimes, I need to keep adding exceptions…
Usually when I get a warning of that sort, I manually retype the url for safety’s sake, or double-check the site on Wikipedia or Whois it. There may be some characters that look identical to others. Article on it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/30/fact-check-hackers-use-similar-looking-characters-phishing-schemes/4891437001/
Good point. Btw this is Rethink DNS on my phone with a ton of active blocklists, which are quite often overzealous… So then I visit the url in Tor Browser instead.
As per usual, the LPT is buried in the comments.
Ehh, I get ~3 pages of 3rd party crap, most of which is on block lists. Red = explicitly blocked, 3rd party scripts and XHR blocked by default (I do also block google.com, gstatic.com and facebook.com whenever they’re a 3rd party, but every other red domain is considered dodgy by default).
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uMatrix FTW
Edit: Also I should say that if I were to enable things more stuff would almost certainly load up.
That’s a fact of any news site these days.
Btw uBlock on FF + Rethink DNS ftw
Left-leaning, mostly accurate, sensation stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Story Probably on the blocklist purely because of the word “raw”
Some block lists will include newly registered or rarely visited domains.
The article quotes their source as https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-google-search-drop-35648.html, which are just showing the decrease in search results each day on Google for
site:twitter.com.