Stop using twitter for f*cks sake
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Seriously.
This is the internet; you can say “fuck” here.
Sir this is a Wendys, go rant somewhere else for fucks sake
Excuse me, I'm going to have to ask you not to curse here.
this is a Christian Minecraft server
It really baffles me how often I still see it talked about. Especially on Lemmy. I never liked it myself but now the musk owns it, I would've assumed there wouldn't be much controversy here: it's dead and gone, move on, people.
I made accounts on Mastodon and Blue Sky but most people still use Twitter, so if there's info you're looking for, or if you want to share things, you're forced to use what most people are using.
I deleted my 2007-era Twitter account in 2022 and not once have I felt like I was missing out on any “info” or felt like I wasn’t able to share things.
Which means that Firefox works properly on that aspect. Good.
We're getting closer and closer to the complete destruction of this worthless shithole, keep it up elon!
Unfortunately, shaking off users who are digitally conscious enough to use Firefox (and recommend alternatives) probably improves Twitter's odds.
I saw a recommendation to use Firefox's container extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers, but it's disabled in private browsing windows, and I always use private browsing windows.
Then just... enable the containers in private tabs? The option is right there in the extensions menu.
Every time someone writes x.com I immediately think they're talking about a porn site. What a shit rebrand. Or what a perfect name I guess?
Porn sites are feeling discredited by comparing them to x-formerly-known-as-twitter.com
The thing people miss when they boast "wElL I DoNT uSe iT sO nOt mY pRoBlEm" is that an increasingly large proportion of our society does use these shit platforms, and for longer periods too. We have to live in this world with all the brainrotted zombies so it is actually our problem too.
I think it is called the network effect. People are still using Twitter because the messages they want to see are being posted there, and those messages are being posted there because that's where the audience is. So, basically, people are locked in.
This also means that any loss in user count has a double effect, as not only users are lost, but the utility of the service for the remaining users decreases. So, what I'm saying is, if Elon continues this way, at some point there will be a large exodus of users from Twitter, as each loss of users reduces the utility of Twitter further, triggering a chain reaction.
Of course, we can't know when that happens, and since we're both on Lemmy, we've already self-selected as people with little tolerance for enshittification.
The real question is why people are still using that dumpster fire of a website.
To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads
i have no idea why people who are concerned about privacy would use anything associated with elon musk.
The Gods forbid I try to literally read something
The real question is why people keep using Twitter despite how impossible it is to even visit the website
Glad I jumped off the platform.
Twatter is for rubes. Who cares?
I have an app called TrackerControl. It blocks a ton of shit. Here is one rule of thumb I have, if a website breaks because of this app, I'm not going to it. I don't need it. I can live without it. So many apps work no problem. The ones who don't, they want to fingerprint and track me.
What's up with all the posts about this porn site?
This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.
No this is a hilarious fuckup where they forgot to move twitter.com, pbs.twimg.com and more off of the Twitter domains, so Firefox started blocking it because to Firefox it looks like Social Media trackers.
Mozilla already pushed a fix.
brb installing firefox
Twitter forcing me to stop using Twitter is an incredible galaxy brain suicide maneuver. I can't wait to see it explode spectacularly in a blaze of stupid right in elon's face
Fuck you Musk!
Maybe disabling WebRTC, fingerprinting & use AntiDPI (like green tunnel or Adguard) will help
I think i figured out what cause this (seems they have script to prevent strict protection from Mozilla)
Glad I don't use Xitter.
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