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by jeffjose 4915 days ago
While this gets you over this minor inconvenience , is it really worth the risk of exposure to malwares?
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You're presuming right now that the detection is accurate and that, if it is, third-party Twitter clients would be susceptible to the same vectors.

You have an exposure risk every time you use the Web; managing that risk is part of what we do as users (and, to a greater degree, as professionals).

if you're ready to manage that risk (based on gut instinct that this is a false positive?), just click through. I don't see the issue there for users. The real issue is false positives from the website's point of view, since the vast majority of users won't click through by design.