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·
    2 years 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.

  • Talos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years 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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        2 years 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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          2 years 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.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

    • joshuaacasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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
    0·
    2 years ago

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

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 years 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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          2 years 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…

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.