{"id":102256,"date":"2025-02-17T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:49:08","slug":"x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, according to journalist Matt Binder and other firsthand accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disruptionist.com\/p\/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal\">Binder wrote in his Disruptionist newsletter Sunday<\/a> that links to <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.me\/\">Signal.me<\/a>, a domain that offers a way to connect directly to Signal users, are blocked on public posts, direct messages, and profile pages. Error messages\u2014including &#8220;Message not sent,&#8221; &#8220;Something went wrong,&#8221; and profiles tagged as &#8220;considered malware&#8221; or &#8220;potentially harmful&#8221;\u2014give no direct suggestion of a block. But posts on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/613997\/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors\">reporting at The Verge<\/a>, and other sources suggest that Signal.me links are broadly banned.<\/p>\n<p>Signal.me links that were already posted on X prior to the recent change now show a &#8220;Warning: this link may be unsafe&#8221; interstitial page rather than opening the link directly. Links to Signal handles and <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/\">the Signal homepage<\/a> are still functioning on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, according to journalist Matt Binder and other firsthand accounts. Binder wrote in his Disruptionist newsletter Sunday that links to Signal.me, a domain that offers a way to connect directly to Signal users, are blocked on public posts, direct messages, and profile pages. Error messages\u2014including &#8220;Message not sent,&#8221; &#8220;Something went wrong,&#8221; and profiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, according to journalist Matt Binder and other firsthand accounts. 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