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submitted 7 months ago by tree@lemmy.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14106579

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically.

If a user typed in "Twitter.com," they would see "Twitter.com" as they typed it before hitting "Post." But, after submitting, the platform would show "X.com" in its place on the X for iOS app, without the user's permission, for everyone viewing the post.

And shortly after this revelation, it became clear that there was another big issue: X was changing anything ending in "Twitter.com" to "X.com."

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[-] booty@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The problem is that you can make websites that end in twitter. An example used in the article is someone makes a site called "netflitwitter.com" and posts a link to it on twitter. Twitter will now display it as "netflix.com" and if you click it it sends you to "netflitwitter.com"

Twitter is now a phishing paradise, in other words.

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