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.

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?

    • TheOneCurlyEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      That’s what I’m experiencing. Every tweet and even going to the main url results in a redirect to a log in splash page.

      • partial_accumenEnglish
        12•1 year ago

        Well if that’s the case Twitter is as dead to me.

        Spez has talked about how he’s trying to model Reddit on Musk’s “success” with Twitter.

        It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk’s plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.

        • @zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Twitter is way more prominent than reddit. I doubt that there’s a secret plan

          If anything, Splez is too dense to notice that Musk seems to be intentionally/unintentionally ruining Twitter. It’s really hard to imagine how someone could look at “ad revenue down 70%” and think wow, that’s what we need to emulate!

        • @Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…

    • EchEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      It’s not a suggestion. It’s what they’re doing right now.

    • @cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yep. I wonder what this is going to do to their traffic. I know I’m not signing up.

      I bet Reddit will follow suit.