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Like Instagram and others they have gotten quite hostile to visitors without an account. I guess tracking and monetizing your users earns a lot more than displa
by conradfr 5y ago
Like Instagram and others they have gotten quite hostile to visitors without an account. I guess tracking and monetizing your users earns a lot more than displaying ads for everyone.
- ProAm 5y ago> I guess tracking and monetizing your users earns a lot more than displaying ads for everyone. During a gold rush, sell shovels.
- DixieDev 5y agoYeah, if you click too many links without an account it'll bring up a sign-up pop-up that takes you to the previous page when you close it. You can get around it by opening the link in a new tab, or save yourself constant hassle by disabling cookies on twitter altogether. While we're here, take another pro-tip: Set yourself up with an RSS/Atom reader and "Follow" accounts you are interested in through Nitter. No account, no random "We thought you might like", and no ads, just posts and retweets from the accounts you're interested in.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoTwitter is also hellbent on associating accounts with phone numbers. This is a dealbreaker for me. I will look into Nitter.
- ApolloFortyNine 5y agoWell with France making it illegal to use Google analytics, I expect many more websites to move forward with forcing you to login. They force you to have an account, which makes you agree to them tracking you, and they'll use you being logged in to track that. When they can use third party analytics it's not as important, but still obviously a plus to them to have people have an account.
- Vosporos 5y ago*making it illegal to use Google Analytics because GA moves identifying data to the US. Tracking with an account doesn't solve this. Let's not be reductive.
- ApolloFortyNine 5y agoIn other comments they mention that user consent would be enough to allow this. Unfortunately I'm not going to read another country's laws to see if this is actually the case.