Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rooster_butt@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.

Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related

Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.

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[-] Matharl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe users will stop posting link to this site now that a lot of people can’t see it.

I see this as a plus.

[-] TaraYazdiEnthusiast@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

So are all social media companies racing to the bottom?

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I can't wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

[-] Willer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to control the image size?

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Good question, I have no idea. I wasn't even sure this was going to post. I just pasted the images in from the clipboard.

[-] Willer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

darn

[-] Nryanlol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why does the internet seem to just continue getting shittier

[-] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Corporate greed and commercialisation of everything. Welcome to the dystopian hellhole we live in

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yep, every company requires quarterly growth and hitting KPIs, so a bunch of assholes with no moral qualms about it will fuck everything to get higher bonuses.

Its also why everything is subscription based these days.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's not a suggestion. It's what they're doing right now.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as "yes".

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023

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