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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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[–] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 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 (2 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.