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.

  • Paige (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago
    • 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.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • mrginger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I will never understand these platforms doing this. The whole reason they became popular was because you could see what everyone was saying on them. It drove traffic to them and in turn ad revenue and more users. Reddit closing their api is basically the same. Only Facebook gets away with that kind of crap because of the nature of what it is and how it’s used.

    Not that I’m complaining.

  • ColonelSanders@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    While corporate greed has been a problem since the Reagan administration, we’re seeing an unprecedented jump in greed these past couple of years by companies all suddenly trying to squeeze out every last drop from people. Netflix with it’s disabling of user password sharing, Twitter and all it’s checkmark BS (with this login wall being the latest example), Reddit and it’s API changes, and YouTube experimenting with blocking people who use adblockers. All to name a few. It really is spiraling out of control and unchecked, but sadly we lack a proper government (at least in the US, though there may still be some hope in the EU) to stand up to them.

    • reverendz@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @ColonelSanders

      @Martineski

      The era of easy VC money is over. All these companies that exploded with growth on low-interest-rate-investor-cash are having to show profitability to shareholders.

      I’ve seen this before. Been involved in tech since the mid 90’s. During the Dot Com boom of the late 90s it was NUTS what some of the companies would provide for employees. I worked for a place that basically provided free food for employees. I literally didn’t shop for groceries for a few months, I’d just bring some of it home with me.

      When the “Dot Bomb” exploded in the early 00’s it was an abrupt shift and it happened so quickly I remember everyone being shocked and upset.

      I remember feeling real lucky to have a job in '08 and '09 when the recession got bad. However, things got better and you began to see more perks from tech companies.

      Now it’s cycling back again. It’s only a matter of time before someone from the government says “recession”. In the meanwhile, a lot of these tech companies are acting like any other big business and they’re squeezing what they can out of users to be more profitable in the short term.

      While I definitely think there are issues with federation, it couldn’t have become popular at a better time. IMO while most users will put up with what these companies are doing, you’re going to see more tech orientated people migrating to federation in some flavor or another. Eventually, it or something akin to it will get more polished and the mainstream will follow. And the cycle repeats.

    • rho@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      This is sort of the final stage of endless growth capitalism. Once you have reached the max saturation of your potential user base with an attractive product, you sell that product for a huge payout and the next CEO comes in with a mandate to squeeze the orange for all its juice.

      Inevitably this leaves the market ripe for the next disruptor to come in with a more enticing offer and the cycle repeats. With market consolidation however this is becoming harder and harder to do with every second comapny owned by Disney or Microsoft or Haliburton etc.

      • ColonelSanders@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Which begs the questions: What comes next? How does late stage capitalism “end”? Will it collapse in on itself? What will replace it? I don’t know the answers to these, but it certainly feels like we’re entering (or about to enter) the “find out” phase.

  • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        And now everyone would need to create an account and log in to see those updates. Kinda defeats the purpose.

        Maybe move to some sort of RSS feed? I’m sure such a resource exists.

  • ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ox0r@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      OT but it amazes me at what point musk sounds like trump when posting lol, he really just is technotrump

    • onepinksheep@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      And that, Musky, is why sites generally provide an API and don’t lock it behind prohibitive pricing. Because the alternative is to scrape your site, and that’s more resource intensive for the site in question.

    • soundasleep@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If only there was some sort of reasonably-priced computer-readable service or platform that organisations could use to collect data without degrading the service of users…

      • ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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).