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To play devil's advocate a bit - you can call their solution good from an engineering standpoint because they were able to do it quickly and cover the vast majo
by dgrin91 3y ago
To play devil's advocate a bit - you can call their solution good from an engineering standpoint because they were able to do it quickly and cover the vast majority of cases. Yes you can seemingly easily get around this with a quick user agent switch, but 99.9999% of users won't do that, so this solution is good enough.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoTo play the... angel's prosecutor (?), but how can it be good from engineering standpoint when they're not trying to block users without login, supposedly, but this army of scraping AI firms and botnets? Who ever scraped a page and doesn't know to try referrer, user-agent and all other 101 tricks in the book?
- rsynnott 3y agoGod's Advocate, in fact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_advocate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_advocate). These used to be _official posts_ in the Catholic Church; the devil's advocate's role was to argue against the canonisation of a prospective saint. (I can't, offhand, figure out if they got a special uniform, but I do hope so.) They now use a more civil law-ish approach to this.
- proamdev123 3y agoYou’re right, but OP’s “angel’s prosecutor” has a nice ring to it. I love it!
- wunderland 3y agoIt immediately broke embedded tweets all over the web, something which was unique to Twitter. This lowers Twitter’s overall value in hopes of reaching some short term sign-up goal.
- addisonl 3y agoDidn’t they ddos their own website on Saturday when they rolled this out?