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I currently pay for Twitter Blue; I would pay double for no ads. Hopefully that possibility is considered alongside “assigning an engineer to obfuscate the CSS”
by fwlr 3y ago
I currently pay for Twitter Blue; I would pay double for no ads. Hopefully that possibility is considered alongside “assigning an engineer to obfuscate the CSS”.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoWait, the Twitter subscription service doesn't remove ads already? That's wild, I guess I just assumed that it would.
- hutattedonmyarm 3y agoIt reduces the amount of ads, but isn't ad free
- Blackthorn 3y agoTwitter Blue didn't even remove ads? What the hell is the point then?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoTo get the blue tick. As of today, it now gives encrypted DMs too, but I can't see many people sharing sensitive data over a Twitter DM.
- fileeditview 3y agoI think it also allows longer tweets. Not sure what their character limit is.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoOh yeah! 10,000 character limit for Twitter Blue users.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoAlso 1080p videos, which are surprisingly high quality. It seems like a much higher bitrate then Youtube or Instagram '1080p'.
- pavlov 3y agoThe point is to make a monthly donation to show your allegiance to the world’s second-richest man. It’s like a cult membership fee. You get a little graphical badge to show you’ve paid, like a virtual lapel pin.
- drcongo 3y agoI heard someone use "blue tick wanker" as a real life insult the other day.
- gettodachoppa 3y agoIt was already used as an insult in many parts of the Internet, long before Elon Musk's buyout. It's just the blue check people from that era don't really realize how many people despise them.
- JohnTHaller 3y agoIt also acts as a great self-selector to filter out users who pay allegiance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blueliteblocker/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blueliteblock... Example: https://i.imgur.com/vgzTo5P.png https://i.imgur.com/vgzTo5P.png
- slimebot80 3y agoBlue ticks are helpful because you can identify and mute them with JS and the Musk-lead narcissism.
- rsynnott 3y ago> What the hell is the point then? You assume that there is one.
- fwlr 3y agoI do recall seeing some sort of promise of less ads. I think it said 50% less ads at some point in the process. (Personally I am paying for it for the same reason I pay for YouTube Premium and OpenAI Plus; I like the principle of paying for products I use - as much as possible, I want to avoid incentivizing companies turning my eyeballs into their real product.)