07-01-2023, 04:42 AM
Here's the fun news that made me start this thread:
Twitter has started blocking unregistered users
Quote:Twitter didn’t immediately make a public announcement, making it unclear if this was an intentional update or another technical mishap. Later on Friday, however, Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted, claiming in a reply that the change is a “Temporary emergency measure,” blaming “data pillaging” for degrading the service for all users.
In a reply to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney complaining about how pay and account walls break the internet, Musk claimed, “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience” without providing any more specifics.
Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read
Quote:Back in 2022, Musk took an inclusive approach, enlisting the skills of George Hotz, a well-known iPhone hacker and the author of the Towelroot exploit for Android. Hotz's mission was to streamline the search function and eliminate the login prompt that inconvenienced guests. However, this mission came to a sudden halt with Hotz's abrupt resignation, which led to Twitter completely removing the search function for unregistered users this April.
I use a third-party reader (Nitter through LibRedirect) and I can confirm this has fucked me. I can imagine this is the exact kind of thing he's trying to figure out how to fight, especially with the recent Reddit news.