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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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[–] zeppo 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is true, but that would require their audience to know about and use RSS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

People had to learn to use Twitter too, they can learn to use a feed reader. Or they can just read a website. It used to be common practice to just go to an official website, and optionally subscribe to its feed as well. Browsers used to make it super easy by prominently displaying a button that showed you that the website has feeds to offer.