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.

    • donalonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The day I realized it was actively trying to make me furious by pushing notifications of incendiary tweets from people I didn’t know existed or cared about writing about stuff I didn’t find interesting but extremely toxic and offensive I stopped using it. It was before Elon took over, but when he did I deleted the account. It’s such a toxic hellscape, I wish the official outlets I followed would just publish to Mastodon instead, but I’d rather just not see anything from that page, it’s absolutely worth it.

      It’s the sewage of the Internet, and the rats there brutally fight each other for the silliest of reasons.

    • wtf_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      twitter is the perfect place to have a screenshot of something you said in 2010 be put on blast so a bunch of college kids can scream about it and demand your corporation fires you

    • CaptainApathetic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The only reason I use it is that not enough prominent people are on Mastodon and for me it’s only good for being a quick way of seeing what’s going on in media and politics.