Twitter locked behind login page.
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.
Why does the internet seem to just continue getting shittier
Corporate greed and commercialisation of everything. Welcome to the dystopian hellhole we live in
Yep, every company requires quarterly growth and hitting KPIs, so a bunch of assholes with no moral qualms about it will fuck everything to get higher bonuses.
Its also why everything is subscription based these days.
Maybe users will stop posting link to this site now that a lot of people can’t see it.
I see this as a plus.
So are all social media companies racing to the bottom?
Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?
It's not a suggestion. It's what they're doing right now.
My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as "yes".
Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That's the end of that, I guess. Most people aren't going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.
Are all the news articles with embedded tweet widgets busted now?
I just checked a random news article and embedded tweets seem to be working still. But when you click the tweet you get taken to the login page.
I don't know why they bother embedding tweets. They always quote the tweet anyway, so you end up reading the same bit twice.
Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.
It's pretty wild. Users are inherently lazy. Give a decent product where you can have a positive ROI on user engagement and sit back to rake it in.
But actively be hostile to users and they are fickle as can be.
I was on Reddit for 16 years with over 100k karma.
And I've deleted the app I was using for it which they broke and switched app and habits over to Lemmy in less than 24 hours.
Nothing like hubris with a dash of greed to ensure success for one's competition.
Is there a way to control the image size?
Good question, I have no idea. I wasn't even sure this was going to post. I just pasted the images in from the clipboard.
darn