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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] dynamojoe 146 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We've got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.

[–] 0110010001100010 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Cats?? On the internet?!

[–] Drunemeton 6 points 1 year ago

You are the hero we need! ❤️

[–] Duamerthrax 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there's an addon for Firefox if you're really inclined.