Saturday, July 11, 2020

Discord Nitro scam, don't be fooled

There's a new scam going around on Discord claiming to give you a free month of Nitro benefits, I received 2 messages from this alleged bot today:
the screenshot has been edited to remove the "invite" ID to prevent people from triggering it through manual entry
Screenshot has been edited to remove invite ID to prevent triggering it through manual entry of URL

Of course only being a month, I didn't really intend on claiming it anyways, but having experience as a Computer Technician, knowing the magnitude of those with malicious intent (and the many different methods of phishing account information, as well as through various forms of malware) & being a constant target of phone, email & messenger scams/extortion attempts, I chose to do my research on it before going any further (originally seeing the message on my Android), this thread was at the top of the search results.

If you get these messages (and it's fairly likely EVERYBODY has gotten one if you are on a fairly populated server), do NOT click on these links, block the account (block them on your server as well if possible) & delete the messages (unfortunately Discord does not give an easily accessible report function, if one at all, so the best you can do for now is to block it), maybe add your comments to the thread that's already been supplied.

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Twitch video & live broadcast embedding broken

Twitch recently made changes to their embedding API, which screwed up all embedded videos both on this blog & my personal site (I would suspect on other external sites as well).  I've been attempting to get this fixed, but as of yet, have been unsuccessful; I may eventually just need to resort to embedding YouTube versions instead & only providing a link to the video on Twitch if chat played a part in the video in question (which is usually done anyways, so ultimately it will only be the YouTube versions being embedded or no embedded version if it hasn't been uploaded to YouTube; uploading to my personal site is another option, as well as a number of other sites I have used in rare situations, even other sites I haven't used could be used, even if I need to create new accounts for them).

Ironically, Twitch keeps making changes that drives people off to using other sites for what they cut off; first it was the PlayStation 3 & PS Vita apps (YouTube still has theirs running without problems & it's not required to stay logged out of it for it to work, only the PlayStation 4 app still remains on PlayStation systems), next it was descriptions on videos, now we're looking at recorded & live video embedding on external sites biting the dust...  Shall we start making predictions on what they'll cut off next?