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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] hark 15 points 2 years ago

I used to click on the trending hashtags and use the search to look up content on twitter, then they put them behind a login wall, so I stopped using those. Now with them putting the entire site behind the login wall, I'm simply not using the site at all. This should be great for the growth of the platform.