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.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.

      • MercuryUprising@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    • joshuaacasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have conflicted feelings about the death of Twitter. I mean, because it’s owned by that jackass moron Elon, I cheer on Twitter’s death. BUT… Twitter is (sadly) the only (non-adult site) place left on the Internet that allows sex workers to exist. The death of Twitter is going to mean a shit load of vulnerable people’s jobs are going to be fucked

  • Neirin@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same here. I only browse, so I don’t have an account and I don’t plan on making one. This sucks.

  • sven@l.mchome.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is pretty terrible really. Governments, cities, states use twitter for alerts and news. Now I have to agree to be tracked and monetized to view information from my government. I think everyone needs to write to all your cities, states, schools, law enforcement etc and demand they stop using twitter for anything. Our taxes should not go to padding twitter’s wallets.

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Now that Twitter has become what it is, I’m somewhat offended that my local government makes announcements on it. Hopefully this will be an impetus for them to stop… although many agencies use Facebook too, and FB and IG have been this way for years.

      • tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Lemmy is exactly what government bodies need. Anyone from other instances can see, vote and comment. They can limit sign up to only employees and their users immediately have an official seal of authenticity. @obama@whitehouse.gov would be so cool.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          They absolutely should be setting up lemmy or mastodon as official announcement sites. That would be a perfect platform.
          I think they also want to be on twitter, fb etc for the distribution potential though.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty wild. Users are inherently lazy. Give a decent product where you can have a positive ROI on user engagement and sit back to rake it in.

      But actively be hostile to users and they are fickle as can be.

      I was on Reddit for 16 years with over 100k karma.

      And I’ve deleted the app I was using for it which they broke and switched app and habits over to Lemmy in less than 24 hours.

      Nothing like hubris with a dash of greed to ensure success for one’s competition.

  • Talos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That’s the end of that, I guess. Most people aren’t going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.

      • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I just checked a random news article and embedded tweets seem to be working still. But when you click the tweet you get taken to the login page.

        • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I don’t know why they bother embedding tweets. They always quote the tweet anyway, so you end up reading the same bit twice.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Well if that’s the case Twitter is as dead to me.

        Spez has talked about how he’s trying to model Reddit on Musk’s “success” with Twitter.

        It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk’s plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.

        • Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…