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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] talos 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Same thing happened to Insta back when I used to lurk on it. They start requiring a login to view any content, so I just noped out. I don't care enough to make an account on every social media site.

[–] tranceFusion 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are all the news articles with embedded tweet widgets busted now?

[–] NevermindNoMind 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 5 points 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.