• ItGoesItGoes [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Imagine paying for engaging in self-harm, now with more colours.

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Lol, this seriously looks ridiculous. It reminds me of when 9/11 happened, and I was with [PURCHASE HEXBEAR PREMIUM TO CONTINUE READING THIS MESSAGE - $2.99]

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      lol, yeah that was crazy, reminds me when [PURCHASE HEXBEAR PREMIUM TO CONTINUE READING THIS MESSAGE - $2.99]

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    Incredible that every one of these features can be done without a subscription with one of a few third party twitter clients.

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    lol this is gonna be really fuckin bad. It looks like they monetizing what would have otherwise been standard updates to their platform, in addition to a few things already able to do with browser extensions. I've blocked SO many advertisers on twitter my mobile experience is also pretty damn good, not sure if ads have anything to do with this shit though. I have to imagine twitter blue users might have some type of priority type thing eventually showing up more on people's feed too.

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Now that monetization is happening, keep an eye out for them purging all the adult / NSFW content

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Can you recommend any Firefox extensions to block promoted tweets? The only one I've ever tried turned out to be malware (even though it was in the Firefox repository fuuuu) and redirected my browser only to have my ass saved by MalwareBytes :agony-consuming:

      I've also recently configured a pihole server to provide network wide adblocking, but it doesn't seem to work against the promoted content on major websites (youtube, reddit, twitter) since they seem to have gotten wise to the adblock techniques.

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Idk if there is one, that's why I mentioned blocking brands so much throughout the years when I use mobile. I turned off personalized ad options within twitter settings and I almost never see add on desktop either. It's easily over 500 brands blocked by now probably. Any time I see an ad on mobile I just block the account

          • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            you could probably find a twitter block chain as well for brands, i never used one tbh im a little sketched authorizing any app on my shit, but plenty of people do it, especially during the primaries, anyone following bernie or had tweeted anything relating to his campaign were mass blocked by libs lol

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        In general if ublock origin and maybe a script blocker like noscript can't block it then there's a good chance it can't be blocked easily.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If any Twitter engineers are reading this, do this unironically. The K-pop stans will implement communism overnight

    • Galli [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      How else are they going to cover expenses? some of these tweets are up to 280 bytes now.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Twitter will hide the ability to block and mute behind the paywall for ultimate hellworld.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Wait, fuck. Let people spend money to be unblocked as well. Hellworld economics.