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From: "Antonio T. sagitter" <sagitter <at> fedoraproject.org>
To: Jeremie King <jeremieking <at> jeremieking.com>, 62981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62981: Twitter redirect
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:05:53 +0200

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Which addons have you installed in Icecat?

On 21/04/23 00:45, Jeremie King wrote:
> Version 102.9.0esr (64-bit)
> Clean install from Fedora 37 repos
> 
> 
> Problem: Twitter is redirecting to inappropriate websites. It looks like 
> maybe there was something that would redirect users to nitter (why would 
> that be appropriate anyway, the browser should not be interfering with 
> my choice of URL) and maybe the old link doesn't work anymore? It looks 
> like it's one of those parked URLs that transfers to multiple domains 
> for ad revenue.
> 
> How disappointing! I would love to switch from firefox to ice cat... but 
> this is nefarious behavior!
> 
> I can provide screenshots or video of the issue. Again, this is a very 
> clean install on a new system. I have also reproduced on multiple machines.
> 
> 

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