Twitter (and YT) embed tag

[danbrotherston]

I noticed a while back that the Twitter and YT embed tag ([twitter]) is not working. When I use the tag in a tweet, I just get an empty post. The content is still there, I ca go to edit mode and remove the tag, but until I do it renders as an empty post.

Am I using it wrong? Or is it not working? It would be nice if it was working, I think it's a QoL improvement if we don't have to follow links to see the context.

I seem to recall this coming up in discussion before, so maybe I'm forgetting why it was disabled (although if disabled for a reason, it should probably have a better result than simply not rendering a post).

I never saw the original discussion, maybe it was related to this, but as a user I would prefer if no requests to third parties were made without opting in. But I know I'm probably in the extreme minority, and this is just an inconvenience to most people, so I accept that it's up to me to modify my browser in a manner that I'm comfortable with. It's nice when site owners take steps towards user privacy though.

FWIW, it seems like every page makes requests to Twitter servers to load a script, regardless of embedded content. As well as Amazon Ads, among other third party content.

I mean, I understand the principle (and I personally run a pihole to block a lot of trackers), but I also enjoy the integration that is possible with such embedding.

FWIW, from a technical standpoint, is it not necessary that such embedding occur at the browser level, the backend service could perform the embedding. But there are benefits and drawbacks to doing it this way.