lexyeevee

troublesome fox girl

hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox



so itch does have a thing for directly embedding browser games elsewhere, which could be straightforwardly used for pico-8 games, but it doesn't seem to work super great with iframely

the pico-8 bbs also has an embed but again it just sort of collapses to nothing

i don't know how iframely works exactly but i'm guessing that if it doesn't recognize something as a Known Embed (like, a youtube video) then it just doesn't even try to preview it? which is not unreasonable but kind of unfortunate here


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Hmmm, yea, it's unfortunate and decently reasonable.

I'm reminded of the Discord DM scams from last year where a compromised friend's account would message you about beta testing their game. Some of those had itch links involved, iirc.

So I'm not necessarily all that surprised, even if itch has upped its security to shut down such vectors (which I don't know whether they have or haven't).

those scams do require you to download and run an arbitrary executable, which then reads your discord login tokens off your hard drive. an iframe can't do that. and of course nothing's stopping a chost from linking to malware the same way

like bandcamp uses og:video too, because that's the easiest way to get a media player card on twitter or facebook or whatever

In practice og:video doesn't mean "this is a video," it means "this is a media player," and it gets abused by a lot of things.

Twitter also has their own OpenGraph extension where they just call it twitter:player and that's what SoundCloud uses. But that's not standard OpenGraph and support for it seems to be inconsistent at best.