Twitter Plugin

[cpjobling]

I don't know if this is unique to me, but Chrome (68.0.3440.106) has just started blocking the twitter plugin for tweet expansion. 

According to devtols, error seems to be in the download of https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js which is being blocked by the client!

Perhaps this is due to Google's continuing tightening up of security. I haven't found a workaround yet.

There is no issue on Safari (Mac) Firefox or Beaker.

[Jed Carty]

I heard something about twitter stopping support for a lot of 3rd party integration tools so it may be a problem on the twitter side.

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Yes. It may be more related to the fact that the "widget" mechanism in Twitter is both deprecated and actively being retired?

See my request to Jeremy here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3314 if it relates to that issue.

Chrome (68.0.3440.106) has just started blocking the twitter plugin for tweet expansion. 

[cpjobling]

After some experimentation today with Devtools turned on and Google, it turns out that the chrome-extension DuckDuckGo Privacy Tracker had started to block calls to platform.twitter.com hence the JavaScript https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js needed to render the Twitter widgets wasn't being downloaded. 

I couldn't whitelist platform.twitter.com so had to remove the extension and Twitter is now working again. 

From other discussions, it seems that AdBlock Plus may also block https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js.