No way to close the pop-up, it also disables scrolling

Edit: I encourage everyone to just download the addon u/CyberSyndicalist linked to and wave goodbye to Twitter dot com forever

Only on desktop, but still

  • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I recommend using Nitter anyway. The only trick is finding an instance that's not too heavily used so that it's not rate-limited.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Reddit does that on desktop too? Trying to use Reddit in a mobile browser is beyond frustrating but I've never seen it do that on desktop since I've had an automatic old.reddit redirecting addon ever since new Reddit became a thing

    • Tervell [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I use RES on desktop, and it works pretty alright, I'm so used to the old.reddit layout that when I open it on another PC without RES I barely even recognize the site.

      Don't know if there's an equivalent for mobile though.

  • artificialset [she/her, fae/faer]
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    2 years ago

    It's been a slow process of features being disabled one by one without a sign on. I deleted my account years ago now and I'm really not into the idea of making another.

    I do appreciate the curated view of twitter I get on here though! :capybara-fancy:

  • bigboopballs [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    yeah, you can't even scroll a page down now.

    It sucks but I have been used to it since I was perma-banned from their shitty platform. I'm just not going to worry about it, as much as I want to read stuff on twitter. As far as I'm concerned, this shit is as stupid putting DRM on their website so you can't pirate tweets. Hope it all crashes.

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    You can make it go away by taking the url, clearing the query string (everything in the URL after '?') and opening that in an incognito tab (at least in firefox), but :yea:

    It's becoming increasingly hostile to non-account having users.

  • Usabilly [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    This is a good thing. It decreases their reach, and thus how far the poison can spread.

    Read a Boston Globe story lately? Me neither. If they're getting desperate for logins then that's a sign they're failing.

  • Ziege_Bock [any]
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    2 years ago

    For maximal profitability, the good or service often needs to be made worse.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      Trying to think of any case where this isn't true and drawing a blank. Wonder if anyone wrote about this :marx-joker:

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      First time I saw this happen :shrug-outta-hecks: mobile has been unusable for what feels like the better part of a year already so it ticked me off to see this fucking shit on PC

  • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Good. I hope everybody here stops using Twitter, it seems just as awful as :reddit-logo:

    • Weebus [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      twitter is absolutely worse than :reddit-logo: . at least reddit has some okay hobby communities. twitter is shit all the way down. the chuds are shit. the "fandoms" are shit. the leftists are shit. twitter is as bad as it fucking gets