Embedded Tweet widgets being blocked about blacklist HOT 4 CLOSED

With your hint, I found these after filtering out all the malware results
https://blog.twitter.com/marketing/en_us/a/2015/promote-content-on-and-off-twitter-now-syndicating-promoted-tweets.html
https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/02/12/marketing-world-says-meh-to-twitters-ad-syndication-initiative/

Seems to be a paid ad service, which sounds like a Promoted ad on Google, except that it shows up off the Twitter platform in aggregated Twitter feeds. I would imagine something like a news site that shows the latest tweets.

Thanks for adding it back on! I think the community will benefit from this being on your blacklist.

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Thanks anudeepND!

In my testing of explicitly whitelisting cdn.syndication.twimg.com and blacklisting syndication.twitter.com I got the Twitter widget to display, but not the other way around. (Still works with both whitelisted, presumably because cdn.syndication.twimg.com is the one that the Twitter widget needs)

Do you know what syndication.twitter.com does? A quick Google around shows that it may be a redirect for some kind of malware:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Internet/What-the-heck-is-https-syndication-twitter-com-i-jot-syndication/td-p/146267
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/198133-syndicationtwittercomijot-help/
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/WFBt-OInEoM;context-place=forum/chrome
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6526142

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@eugf Thanks for reporting :)
Removed both syndication.twitter.com and cdn.syndication.twimg.com

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I think it's kind of tracking domain, but it's not present in any other blacklist. I will add it again.

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