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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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[โ€“] JigglySackles 45 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

[โ€“] Matdan 10 points 2 years ago

It basically is, free API was culled destroying many apps and sites that scraped data from Twitter. So many glitches and bugs mean it's easy to get banned.

You get temporarily blocked if you follow more than a couple accounts in a short time and basically anything. So much anti-vax rubbish and crazy people forced onto my feed. Blocking too many of those gets you temp locked out.

Now this login screen and I'm struggling to see how anyone can find it useful. My work still insists though.

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