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.
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.
This is turning into a pretty decisive time in social media where we have the opportunity and momentum to move back to open systems. ๐ค
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.
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.
I was considering this too. I have a feeling a lot of creators are gonna move to nebula.