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.
The day I realized it was actively trying to make me furious by pushing notifications of incendiary tweets from people I didn’t know existed or cared about writing about stuff I didn’t find interesting but extremely toxic and offensive I stopped using it. It was before Elon took over, but when he did I deleted the account. It’s such a toxic hellscape, I wish the official outlets I followed would just publish to Mastodon instead, but I’d rather just not see anything from that page, it’s absolutely not worth it.
It’s the sewage of the Internet, and the rats there brutally fight each other for the silliest of reasons.