Twitter doesn't exactly target the kind of demographic that understands what "to run crypto mining scripts" even means, let alone how to assess whether they "trust the source". I mean, it was retweeted by someone I follow and it has a funny picture of Trump with a dancing turd emoji on his head, what's there not to trust?
It's extremely hard to coach non-technical users into making the right call when presented with a security warning box.
That said, if Twitter can assess whether a posted video contains "sensitive material" (i.e. exposed body parts), they can also assess whether a jsfiddle link (or any link, really) likely contains crypto miners.
It's not about whether it's Twitter's job to "train" them, a warning page before continuing a link is hardly that.
It's about whether they should trust their users and believe that the latter can take responsibility for their own choices, and figure these things out themselves.
> It's about whether they should trust their users and believe that the latter can take responsibility for their own choices, and figure these things out themselves.
You're just begging the question. Why should they do that?
Not really, this is turning into the equivalent of a six year old replying with "why?" to every answer, except you're adults pretending to be oblivious.
You're free not to reply, but I'm not sure why you're calling me childish to ask for an actual reason you think it makes sense for Twitter to do all these things you're asking them to do.
Enlighten me. I could assume the worst of your intentions as you've done, but I'm honestly interested in why you think it makes sense for Twitter to "trust their users" to "take responsibility for their own choices".
The companies don't want that, because they are afraid of losing control over their "users" as the latter become more technologically literate and realise there are better alternatives.
You can already see some of this in things like DRM and adblocking, and of course the various walled gardens.
Mainstream software is all about keeping users blissfully ignorant and consuming.
It's extremely hard to coach non-technical users into making the right call when presented with a security warning box.
That said, if Twitter can assess whether a posted video contains "sensitive material" (i.e. exposed body parts), they can also assess whether a jsfiddle link (or any link, really) likely contains crypto miners.