Twitter embeds not working properly.

[Rtizer-9]

I don't know if it's because of some recent commit because it never used to happen before.

Every page with a tweet embedded is broken.
Cleanlinks is intercepting the origin url in "platform.twitter.com/widgets......origin=url"

Eg: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/03/13/twitters-most-liked-tweet-of-the-week-elon-musk-dismisses-coronavirus-fears/#4cff708c1aff
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/19/21185417/elon-musk-coronavirus-tweets-panic-ventilators-chloroquine-tesla-factory
https://time.com/5470727/most-tweeted-about-celebrites-2018/
https://www.newslaundry.com/2016/07/18/when-subramanian-swamy-trolled-his-own-daughter

You might wanna look into other intercepted urls as well in all these pages. For eg: cdn.embed is also getting blocked which is being used to show tweet.

[Cimbali]

So this is a case of functionality vs. privacy. twitter will not let you load the iframe if you don’t report the origin URL.

[Cimbali]

It’s also worth nothing that this doesn’t break the embedding of twitter content, only its rendering. I.e. instead of the following:

You get this:

So missing additional info such as the reply, and missing some context as the tweet now looks similar to the rest of the article. Importantly, the metadata (tweet author / date) and link to the original tweet (in the date) are still there so you’re 1 click away from the full content.

[Rtizer-9]

I was searching about how this whole tweet thing is implemented in various scenarios and found several things including this entry

@@||platform.twitter.com/widgets/widget_iframe.$subdocument
in fanboy annoyance list with
syndication.twitter.com blocked in every adblocker.

The embedding does break on sites which doesn't have that kind of rendering implemented.

I also found about https://nitter.net (privacy focused twitter frontend) and was thinking maybe through some another redirection mechanism, the resource can be fetched from it. I don't know if it's really possible.

You're right that its a case of functionality vs. privacy. I think at the moment, fanboy's approach is best if adblockers like ublock can trust that.