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.

  • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    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
      3·
      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.

      • nintendiator@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        undefined> , maybe not as a social media platform, but surely as a public service/news platform it has some merit.

        If the distribution of some emergency news and public service news is so important that you have to have it during emergencies, then it’s Too Big To Fail and must not be held by a corporation, but implemented by the government. Every service such as police, firefighters, etc, should have a public RSS or Atom service announcement.

  • 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.

  • 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
        2·
        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.

        • dedale@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          how does it end
          Seeing the environmental disruptions of the last decade, I’d say extinction of human life.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I haven’t opened a twitter post in a few weeks anyway, but this just cements the fact that I’ll never go to twitter again. I legitimately don’t care enough about what people are saying on there to login.

  • 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.

  • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Well, there go all my links to tweets on my singularity sub. Hopefully this finally pushes posters to switch to another platform to share news about stuff.

    Edit: Same as paywalled articles, I won’t be allowing links to tweets as their main focus from now on. It’s time for this platform to die.

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

      This is turning into a pretty decisive time in social media where we have the opportunity and momentum to move back to open systems. 🤞

      • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Youtube also is starting to experiment with locking people from watching videos if they have adblock turned on. We live in a truly great times where those behemoths are deciding to kill off themselves at the same time and it makes me truly happy. Open source FTW.

        • MsPenguinette@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I gladly and happily pay for YouTube Premium and have had it since the days of just paying for Play Music Unlimited.

          Hopefully they can figure a way to make more premium subscribers rather than trying to squeeze the people who can’t pay cause youtube dying would be absolutely catestrophic

        • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Loosing YT would be painful for me, but there’s no way I’d start sitting through ads. I’d end up buying a nebula subscription or something at that point.

          • cavemeat@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I was considering this too. I have a feeling a lot of creators are gonna move to nebula.

  • 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.

    • 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…

    • 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.

      • 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).

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

            If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models, that could become an issue for the fediverse as well. Our infrastructure is funded by donations and has much less performance and resiliency than big tech companies.

            We might reach a point where the negative impacts on the environment caused by AI outweigh the benefits, just like it already happened with blockchains.

            • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models

              He’s not genuine whatsoever. I’ll believe this was the reason to lock Twitter when I see evidence of it. Remember how he wasn’t going to [layoff 75% staff; block payments for utilities / rent; cancel bonuses; etc]? Troll troll troll.