It’s due to crypto scammers using it. From the founder’s post:<p><i>At some point in the past crypto scammers used JSFiddle to host pages with a wallet code and posted links to that on Twitter.<p>Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these.<p>I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam tweets that included links to the rouge fiddles.<p>Twitter just went the easy route and blocked all jsfiddle.net links instead of blocking spammer accounts on their platform.<p>Tried to contact Twitter many many times, with no reply whatsoever. They most likely have no-explanation-needed-policy, which is why they never replied.<p>There's nothing that can be done here unless somebody has contact to a higher op at Twitter who has the decision power to help out here.</i>
> Twitter just went the easy route and blocked all jsfiddle.net links instead of blocking spammer accounts on their platform.<p>This is a huge problem with all the tech giants that needs to be addressed. I don't expect them to be perfect but I expect them to be open to communications on any level.<p>I also think Twitter is the Twitter today just because of the bots and fake accounts they have since those accounts were creating so much content and movement on the platform. I know people whose spending days by reading those fake accounts while they have no idea what's fake and what's real. So maybe -just may be- they may not want to get rid of all those fake accounts and bots.
What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like <i>"Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link"</i> should work just fine, no?
How many people are actually linking to valid JSFiddle links from Twitter? This might have just been a math decision (X% malware > x% good links).<p>I have my own problems with Twitter, but a social media site with a LOT of non-technical users blocking access to a site specifically designed to run anonymous code in their browser doesn't make me want to break out my pitchfork ...
At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter?<p>From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda.<p>I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.
> Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these.<p>> I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam tweets that included links to the rouge fiddles.<p>So they basically sent a message to Twitter saying "We're knowingly hosting malware and we don't intend to remove it, here are some examples"?
Twitter is crazy. Recently I tried to change my gmail account to a more secure encryted email on my Twitter account but they never let me confirm that email to my account. It always remained pending even though I clicked confirmation links several times. When I went ahead and reverted the email to original gmail account, everything was done seamlessly within seconds. I've had many similar problems with Twitter for years. The Spam Accounts, getting locked for apparently following 'too many' people in a short period of time, clicking confirmation links multiple times, etc and now this.
Out of curiosity, I went onto Twitter and tried to post a link with one of the similar sites as JSFiddle. It seems that CodePen URLs are still allowed. This seems very strange to me, as unless I'm missing something, CodePen has the same inherent faults as JSFiddle.<p>Twitter clearly has taken the easy way out here, and instead of addressing the problem and tried to tackle it, just blanket banned JSFiddle with no regard to their users, or to the variety of similar services that provide the exact same functionality. If I was a crypto miner, I would simply copy paste into CodePen and continue on my way.
Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do.<p>It's also impossible for both jsfiddle or twitter to scan the code of each fiddle and determine if it's legitimate or an attack, so this looks like a good measure from Twitter.<p>What is surprising is how this was even allowed so far and still is in many social networks, as its such an obvious way to deliver exploits.
A reminder that you don't need to technically link in order to refer to a link, nor even mention the site directly:<p>"See JSviolin xxxxx"<p>If anyone gets confused, simply reply "replace violin with synonym starting with f"...<p>This reminds me of when YouTube banned URLs in comments (I don't think they do anymore), so people started posting pieces of them (like video IDs, the part after watch?v=...) with hints instead: "see video xxxx".<p>Likewise, I can refer to this page with "see HN 20122583".<p>The loss of being able to post a link is not good, but in no way does it absolutely stop communication. In fact, it will just cause "euphemisms" to appear, and further exercise human creativity.
I find messages like this frustrating. Facebook will show a generic 'this action could not be completed at this time' page, which is very vague and attempts to deflect their decision onto a nonexistent technical problem.
> They most likely have no-explanation-needed-policy<p>I wonder when alternatives to today's big sites will take serious root. It used to happen much more often.
I don't understand the difference with any other website.<p>What prevents the scammers to post links to a website containing crypto miners, or any malware ?
This is a little offtopic, although I suppose there's a tangential link to JSFiddle getting no response from Twitter.. I too have failed in getting a response from JSFiddle..<p>About 70 days ago, I accidentally posted an anonymous submission to JSFiddle.<p>There was no excuse for this other than human error. I was working on development and production at the same time and copied a users personally identifiable from an email template that our production env sent out instead of development. The development is all sanitised but the prod contains the user's name, email and an order reference ID and what they ordered.<p>I submitted a take down request within 10 minutes of submitting at:<p><a href="https://airtable.com/shrm1ACZfg5PsTaUa" rel="nofollow">https://airtable.com/shrm1ACZfg5PsTaUa</a><p>Every day for a week I altered the reason. It's still not been taken down.<p>I've tried the GDPR route, the copyright route.. I didn't get a single response from them and the page was still being hosted on their site despite many many _MANY_ attempts to have it removed.<p>Update/Edit: Been contacted by JSFiddle directly and appreciate contact in helping resolve above.
JSFiddle is big. They tried. They voiced concerns. They asked foe help. They got a ban with no explanation.<p>Please just join the fediverse. It's broken too, but if you get banned, at least you can open an alt on another server.<p>Force Twitter to be irrelevant.
It troubles me that something as well known as JSFiddle can't get a response from Github. I understand they can't reply to every question from Johnny Developer but JSFiddle must have thousands of users.