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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] PaigePalisade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.ee 2 points 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.