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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/513993

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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[–] PaigePalisade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Click on a link to Twitter on an app that isn't twitter
Link opens in an anonymous browsing window
Twitter redirects me to the login page
I click open in app
It opens the login page in the app

Great design everybody.

[–] cornbread@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit does this too except if you are in anonymous browsing mode the link to open in app takes you to the download page in the App Store, even if you have it installed already. Literally no way to open that page in the app.

[–] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):

Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope for the opposite, this platform should die IMO

[–] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm definitely not using this platform anymore, but Twitter being private also locks away a lot of valuable content (including government announcements, as someone mentioned).

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, we should move away from the platform and this will definitely help with that.

[–] AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

That's why the only social I used was reddit and now moved to lemmy. Because I would rather ideas rise and fall on their own merits than by the name recognition of who said them. I value ideas, not personas or brands.

Some idiot celebrity/politician/Capitalist Sociopath says something and it gets seen by millions, not because it was worth seeing, but because a famous person said it.

[–] Bahlex@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

In the fire country of California it was a quick way to get updates on any wild fires that pop up or evacuations… it has its use cases, maybe not as a social media platform, but surely as a public service/news platform it has some merit.