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Offline GeneYas

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« on: December 08, 2017, 11:52:59 PM »
I love that there is an RSS feed so that I can see what comics are uploaded and it's delivered to my email inbox.
I hate the fact that as of today, opening the notification gives me a Twitter pop-up on every message.
I don't like my browser opening when I'm reading an RSS feed notification.
That is REALLY annoying. >:(

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Offline GeneYas

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2017, 11:59:18 PM »
Not only that, it's a blank page.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <meta chartset="utf-8"> <title>Twitter Widget Log Helper</title>

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2017, 07:16:54 AM »
I would advise you Google: "Twitter Widget Log Helper"


This might not even be anything to do with our website.

Can you post me your browser name? ie Chrome? Firefox? Internet Explorer?
What RSS feed url are you using?
What service are you using to get it delivered to your e-mail?
What is the url of the page that is blank?

Once I have all the above information I can take a look if it is our site causing the issue.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2017, 08:25:12 AM by Yoc »

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2017, 03:28:58 PM »
It's the same feed path that someone posted here many years ago.

http://feed43.com/0374187078107761.xml

I haven't changed anything.

I'm using Thunderbird 52.5.0

The feed above is managed by Thunderbird and it populates the list without a browser.

Firefox 58.0b9 opens into the following URL:
https://platform.twitter.com/jot.html

Again though, I got the link here and only in the past few days has the browser started opening.


Are you using a "Twitter share button that calls http(snip)platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"?

https://twittercommunity.com/t/twitter-widget-js-called-from-thunderbird-rss-feeds-opening-unwelcome-browser-windows-for-1-pixel-image/20216
« Last Edit: December 09, 2017, 03:45:56 PM by GeneYas »

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2017, 04:19:42 PM »
I've done a work around solution.

I added "platform.twitter.com" to my hosts file. Since the browser opens to display a 1px image to track me at that site, updating my hosts file stops if from finding the image online. Since it can't find the image, the browser window never needs to open.

There appears to be no lost functionality if I login to Twitter itself. This may have been a good thing. One less site stalking my activities online.  :)

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2017, 06:32:55 PM »


That feed/page isn't provided by us and chances are it was created using their service by a member.


Problem with way feed43 works is by parsing a websites html and so any changes to the website in future could easily break the rss feed it generates. As far as I am aware we have not updated any of the website code in a few weeks now so if issue only started happening recently it wasn't us. Only other change that has happened in last 24 hours is that we renewed our https certificate but that shouldn't have caused any issues.


If you did want to try fix it without adding it to your host file then you could try going to:
http://feed43.com/


and following their rss wizard using the page: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/stats.php?ACT=latest&start=0&limit=100


The result from feed43 website will then be an rss feed of last 100 uploaded comics.

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2017, 08:18:02 PM »
I've never actually created a feed there and the introduction pages made it sound like a learning curve that I didn't want to initiate.

The link I posted did exactly what I wanted. I'm not sure who created the feed.
I trust you that it's probably not your (inserted) code causing the browser window to launch.
I'd been using that feed for so long that I didn't realize that it was a third party service.

For now, my work-around is solving the problem. It's also giving me a little more privacy. Twitter doesn't need to know I'm visiting this site. It's none of their business.
It's bad enough that Google can track where people go with their ad service and their Chrome browser.

Thank for your input.

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2017, 08:24:00 PM »
Thanks for your posts on this Gene.

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Re: RSS Feed
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2017, 11:47:46 AM »
Thanks for your posts on this Gene.

I will include this instruction for updating thew hosts file.
It's a little trickier in Windows 10 than it was in previous versions.

https://www.petri.com/easily-edit-hosts-file-windows-10

The hosts file tells your computer that you are hosting a domain name.
I added the line "127.0.0.1       platform.twitter.com"

Administrator rights have to be used to resave the updated file. The file is saved without a suffix.

The result:
When Thunderbird tries to access the web to open an image requested by the script, it stops at my computer and can't find it. The request never goes to Twitter. The browser isn't opened to view the image and I'm able to look at the messages like normal. If Twitter ever uses this domain for any critical functionality, it could break the ability to use Twitter. Right now, Twitter is working fine for me.